Name/Title
Our Islands and Their PeopleEntry/Object ID
85.130ADescription
Titled "Our Islands and Their People Volume I", this dark green hard-cover book offers photographic and descriptive representations of the people and the islands which had lately been acquired from Spain by the United States, this volume concerns Cuba and Puerto Rico. It discusses material resources and productions, homes of the people, their customs and general appearance,illustrated with more than twelve hundred photographs, colortypes, and colored maps of views of landscapes, rivers, valleys, hills and mountains.
Handwritten inscription in black ink on the second blank page "To Miss Mabel Schusler. Wheaton Illinois. December 23rd 1902."
Dark green hard-back cover. The title "Our Islands and Their People", in addition to a palm branch and another type of flora impressed in golden letters half way down and off center to the left. Around the edge of the front cover are three consecutive depressed lines that run the entire perimeter of the cover. On the spine impressed in dark gold lettering is the title "Our Islands and Their People Volume I". The back cover is blank. Measures 16" x 11.5" x 1.5"
Library of Congress description: 2 v. col. fronts., illus., col. plates, port., maps. 41 x 29 cm.Lexicon
Search Terms
Ethnic Culture, Native Culture, Photography, TravelBook Details
Author
Major-General Joseph Wheeler, Jose de OlivaresPlace Published
City
St. LouisCounty
St. LouisState/Province
MissouriCountry
United StatesContinent
North AmericaDate Published
1899Publication Language
EnglishLCCN
42004916Notes
Copy No.: 1