Cuba / Haiti Photograph Album, ca. late 1920s

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Title:: Cuba / Haiti Photograph Album,
Dates:: ca. late 1920s
Extent:: .2 linear feet (1 half-size document box)
Language:: English.
Preferred citation:: Cuba / Haiti Photograph Album. Bernath Mss 40. Department of Special Collections, Davidson Library, University of California, Santa Barbara.

Scope and content:: A photograph album with 109 b/w prints, most with captions in English, apparently compiled by an American sailor attached to the USS Wright on its visits to Cuba and Haiti during the late 1920s. Includes a number of photos of the Wright, its planes, and its officers and crew, as well as views of other naval vessels, some taken from the air. A few photos show scenes at Guantanamo Bay (including one of a baseball game). 29 photos of Santa Cruz, Cuba and 8 in Haiti, including a number of buildings and street scenes. Also, a number of smaller photos depicting more personal family groupings, apparently taken in the U.S. and added to the album later.
Acquisition information:: Purchase, 2003.
Physical location:: Del Sur

Collection Guide Author:: Processed by D. Tambo
Date Prepared:: © 2003
Date Encoded:: Machine-readable finding aid in EAD v. 1.0 derived from MS Word 2000 file by David C. Gartrell. Date of source: 13 June 2003 .

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Restrictions:: None.
Terms of access:: Copyright has not been assigned to the Department of Special Collections, UCSB. All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Head of Special Collections. Permission for publication is given on behalf of the Department of Special Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which also must be obtained.

Preferred citation:: Cuba / Haiti Photograph Album. Bernath Mss 40. Department of Special Collections, Davidson Library, University of California, Santa Barbara.

Location of this collection:: UC Santa Barbara, Special Research Collections

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Santa Barbara, CA 93106-9010, US