This thread brought back a memory from a decade or 2 ago. My lady friend at the time and I were going to have a yard sale. She asked her parents that own a farm on the DelMarVa if they had anything they wanted us to get rid of? A trip out to the barn found a brand-new Corning coffee percolator- the white with the blue design one- brand new in the box. Mom picked up a thing and looked into it and said we could trash that. I looked at it and she said that used to be “Doctor (somebody)” from the 1930-ish times. He had taken a trip to Havana on a steamer and bought or had made a scrapbook- type picture album. I guess pages were pre-printed, what with a “frame” for each mounted 8 x 10 picture, and a label as to what the picture was. Pictures were done in the brown, sepiatone paper. The few cars are late 20s, I think. Interesting is the lack of cars and/or people in most of the pictures, which makes me wonder if this was a posed government-sponsored tourist souvenir? The two pics I liked were of the memorial to the USS Maine, and a pic of the HERSHEY sugar factory. I’m sure anyone would enjoying going there. "Havana Cuba ". The tropical Paradise of the West Indies". No date.
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