10x8" 1890s HAVANA CUBA SKULL BONE MASS GRAVE Spanish American War Cabinet Photo

Description

This is
a wonderful
photo with
great character and subject matter.
Actual image has better detail and of nicer image quality than seen in my ebay photos
... displays well.
This is an old photo
which show age and use
.
Old used condition... m
ay have weathering, fading, dust, soiling, staining, mildew, foxing, yellowing, marks, spots, rubs, scratches, bumps, rips, tears, cracks, peeling, chips, repairs, holes, losses
and other imperfections
etc
.
Please look at the images and you decide for yourself
the
value and condition.
Colours in photos may vary from original item depending on camera exposures and viewing monitors.
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good
historic photograph, don't let it get away
...
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What we have here is a large
Fantastic Old c1890s
(approximately 130 years old!)
Cabinet Photo titled "Humane bone pile at Cristobal Colon Cemetery, Havana, Spanish way of disposing of Human bodies S. Arakelian Havana Cuba". Image includes five men (likely American Soldiers and Businessmen)
standing on large pit of skeleton bones, one man holding skull and crossbones. See description in
BLUE
below for more information about this image. Measures
approximately 10
inches
by
8 inches for the entire card and is approximately 8 inches by 5 inches for the actual image.
Colon Cemetery in Havana, Cuba was the site of the celebrated ‘boneyard’. A single grave in the cemetery cost in rent for five years. At the end of the five years, if additional rent was not paid and if the remains were not claimed, the bones were thrown into the open pit boneyard by the cemetery authorities. To the American soldiers hanging out in post-war Havana the Colon Cemetery boneyard was a real novelty. It became a tourist attraction, and posing for a souvenir photo atop the giant pile of human remains was just part of the experience.
Photographs were taken and sold commercially as souvenir postcards to send home to their loved ones.
In the late 1890s American soldiers often removed skulls and bones and drove through the streets of Havana displaying them. Their commander, General Brooke ordered the practice to stop and gave instructions for the pit to be covered over. By 1900, the boneyard had been shielded from would-be plunderers. Even today in modern times Colon Cemetery is so crowded with graves—over 800,000 across its 140 acres—it still maintains a policy of disinterring buried remains in order to save space. Three years after someone is laid to rest, their bones are dug up, boxed, and placed in storage—out of visitors' reach.
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