Cuban Gallery

Sloppy Joes Bar, Havana, Cuba, 1951

Sloppy Joe's Bar, Havana, Cuba, 1951. The world famous Sloppy Joe's welcomed tourists for over four decades, and offered over 80 cocktails in addition to the bar's own brand of 12 year old rum. During the 1940s and 1950s it was popular with American celebrities as well as tourists. The Cuban Revolution of 1959 saw the demise of the bar as the majority of their clientele was American. A fire in the 60s closed the bar for good. It reopened in 2013. Advertising on the back of the postcard says SLOPPY JOE'S BAR first port of call, out where the wet begins and HONESTY IS OUR POLICY, Don't fail to meet your friends at SLOPPY JOE'S. Also lists Famous Cocktails, Delicious Sandwiches, The best brands of Cigars, Fresh Liquors Candies

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General Lawton Learning from Cuban Officers...June 30th, Spanish-American War, 1898, (1899)

General Lawton Learning from Cuban Officers...June 30th, Spanish-American War, 1898, (1899). General Lawton Learning from Cuban Officers How El Caney Could (Not) Be Taken The Next Morning; General Shafter's Headquarters, Sunset'. General Henry Ware Lawton of the US Army discusses strategy on the eve of the Battle of El Caney, fought between the Americans and Cubans against the Spanish at El Caney near Santiago, Cuba. From "The Little I saw of Cuba" by Burr McIntosh, with photographs by the author. (In 1898, American actor and journalist William Burr McIntosh went to Cuba to cover the Spanish-American War for "Leslie's Weekly" as a reporter and photographer). [F. Tennyson Neely, London & New York, 1899]

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The Cuban insurrectionistss meeting in their headquarters, on the corner of Rector Street and Broa Artist: Theodore R Davis

The Cuban insurrectionists's meeting in their headquarters, on the corner of Rector Street and Broadway, c1868, (1938). From Adventures of America 1857-1900, by John A. Kouwenhoven [Harper & Brothers Publishers, New York and London, 1938]

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