Oscar Paglieri: the anointed one of “La Estrella de Italia” in Cuba
An enterprising and accommodating Italian opened a jewelry workshop in Havana that not only won the attention of the personalities ...
Tag: History of Cuba
Cuba’s Railway Museum, without witnesses
Whenever I can, I photograph these enormous artifacts, extinct colossi like dinosaurs. That’s how I came to this kind of ...
The takeoff of the national footwear industry (II)
In 1925, 41% of the footwear demanded by the island’s population was produced in Cuba.
The takeoff of the national footwear industry (I)
It was a craft in which few workers were involved, in family businesses that also functioned as saddleries.
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