Cuba travel collection

Collection — manuscript box: 81 - folder 1

Identifier: 2194m

Scope and content

Broadsides, postcards, brochures, and pamphlets mainly concerning travel to Cuba, especially Havana. Includes advertisements for cruises, hotels, and city tours, a Cuba hotel directory, postcards of the Hotel Gran America, and guidebooks to Havana sights, as well as two printed poems in Spanish and an advertisement for upcoming jai-alai matches. Advertisers include Greyhound bus company, the Peninsular & Occidental Steamship Company, Simone's Tours (affiliated with United Steamship Agencies), La Campana Distillery, passenger agent Barton H. Smith, and Pan American Airlines.

Dates

circa 1935-1936.

Creator

no primary creator (Person)
Smith, Barton H. (Person)
Greyhound Lines, Inc (Organization)
Peninsular & Occidental Steamship Company (Organization)
Simone's Tours (Organization)
United Steamship Agencies (Organization)
La Campana Distillery (Organization)
Pan American Airways Corporation (Organization)

Language of Material

In English and Spanish.

Biographical / Historical

The forces of Fidel Castro overthrew the government of Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista in 1959, and in 1961 Castro proclaimed the revolution to be Marxist-Leninist in nature. It was then that the United States called a halt to American trade and tourism with Cuba, isolating it from its northern neighbor economically. Before then, however, Americans traveled to Cuba freely--especially in the 1930s, when Prohibition prevailed in the United States but not in Cuba.