Éditeur(s) : Detroit Photographic Company Detroit Photographic Company ( [Detroit, Mich.] )
Résumé : This small, Greek Revival memorial borders the east side of the Plaza de Armas. It commemorates the city's first Catholic mass and town council meeting, which took place on the site in 1519. The temple was built in 1828. The first mass took place under a silk-cotton tree, so a tree of this species shades El Templete. Once or twice each century, the tree grows too large for the site, and is replaced.
Digital image. 2005. 400 ppi, 2784 x 3696 pixels, 29.4 mb rgb tif. Photochrom, in 11 x 14 in. window mat, filed in Detroit Photograph Company. Photochroms. Box 2.
Havana (Cuba)

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1991-528-7

Éditeur(s) : Detroit Publishing Co. Detroit Publishing Co. ( [Detroit, Mich.] )
Résumé : The Palace of the Captains General housed Cuban governors from 1790 to 1920. At the time this view was taken, the U.S. military governor occupied the building. The original painted stucco, visible in this photochrom, has since been removed, and the stone walls are bare. The palace now contains the Museum of the City of Havana. This photochrom also shows the Plaza de Armas, Havana's oldest square. The name derives from its days as a military parade ground. A statue of Spanish King Ferdinand VII (Fernando VII) stands in the middle of the plaza. Cubans hated the king and his statue. So, it has been replaced with one of Carlos Manuel de Céspedes.
Havana (Cuba)

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1991-528-2