HAVANA!

[HAVANA] [CUBA] American Express, et al.

Small Archive of Rare Travel Brochures: Seeing HAVANA [CUBA] and Short Tours from Havana.

Havana, Cuba: American Express Co, et al. [c. 1930s]. Small archive of six items from a trip in the early years of the 1930s, all good or better. Items include: One forty page brochure in decorated and printed card stock wrappers, "CUBA The Pearl of the Antilles," with 16 itineraries and copious pictorial advertisements; two contemporary color picture postcards (unused); small brochure, folded to make four pages, offering visits to "Algibe" Farm, the "most typical Cuban Farm in the vicinity of Havana," where you are invited to see how crops are grown, attend "Thrilling Cock-Fights at all hours", and "Royal Palm Climbing Exhibitions." Finally, a fan-folded invitation to "Buy where Cubans buy," at La Isla de Cuba, with an accompanying map, (21 x 14 in.) dated 1928, of the entire downtown Havana shopping district, folded into twelve 7 x 3.75 in. panels with breaks at folds (see photo). All good or better with nicks, small closed tears, and a few smudges. Item #560

Price: $225.00