Cuban postcards
Collection
Identifier: MSS-3695
Scope and Contents
The collection includes twenty postcards depicting scenes in Cuba in the early twentieth century. The postcards show images of rural life as well as the city of Havana and include images of shark fishing, a boneyard, and a man milking a burro.
Dates
- circa 1910-1920
Biographical / Historical
These post cards were collected by Mary Frances Riggs, born in Clinton, Iowa, in 1872. She was a school teacher in Iowa and Nebraska for approximately seventeen years before moving to Idaho in 1908. In 1910, she married Henry Chiles Riggs; she returned to teaching to support her children after his death in 1925. She died in 1969.
Extent
0.1 Linear Feet (20 postcards )
Language of Materials
English
Overview
Postcards depicting scenes in Cuba in the early twentieth century.
Provenance
Gift of Linda Riggs Allen, 2012
General
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Processed by
Martha Bace, 2012
Source
- Allen, Linda Riggs (Donor, Person)
- Title
- Guide to the Cuban postcards
- Status
- Completed
- Date
- November 2012
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- English
Repository Details
Part of the The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections Repository