View of Havana Bay in the mid 19th century.
Cuba's volanta carriage was unique to the island.
Havana's harbor was heavily fortified.
Birdseye view of Havana Bay and Old Havana.
A medieval-style wall surrounded the old city of Havana until 1863.
In the mid 19th century, Christopher Columbus's remains were still buried inside Havana's old cathedral.
The boulevard of Isabel II just outside the walls of Old Havana was the center of social activity for the fashionable.
In the mid 19th century, Cuba was already famed worldwide for its cigars and its tobacco.
At sunset, the finer classes in Havana's society would parade on a wide boulevard, dressed formally with their top hats and canes.
In Cuba in the mid 19th century, the mingling of the races was a complex issue.
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