Rural Settlement and Houses, Cuba, 1853

The sketch of Laz Pozas accompanies an article, Three Weeks in Cuba, by an artist (pp. 161-175). Shows house types and village layout. Laz Pozas, the author writes, is a charmingly-situated village . . . Beyond it are vast forests . . . [which] afford secure retreats for runaway negroes... (p. 175)

Image Title

Rural Settlement and Houses, Cuba, 1853

RegID

SI-OB-1198

Date

1853

Title

Rural Settlement and Houses, Cuba, 1853

Source

Harper's New Monthly Magazine (January 1853), vol. 6, p. 174. (Copy in Special Collections Department, University of Virginia Library)

Language

English

Item sets

Plantation Scenes, Slave Settlements & Houses

Spatial Coverage

Caribbean--Cuba

Reproduced In

Harper's New Monthly Magazine (January 1853), vol. 6, p. 174.

Researchers

Handler, Jerome; Tuite, Michael; Randall Ericson; Henry B. Lovejoy Graduate Research Assistants: Tiffany Beebe; Travis May

Identifier

pg174