"American Progress in Habana"
Magazine article, Photographs
By: National Geographic
Date: March 1902
Source: "American Progress in Habana," National Geographic 13, March 1902, 97–108.
About the Publication: The National Geographic Society formed in January 1888 to encourage exploration and the dissemination of geographical knowledge. The first edition of the organization's magazine was published later that year. The publication later expanded on its original plan, documenting exploration of remote regions of the globe to the outer reaches of the solar system and the universe. National Geographic offered dramatic photographic essays that brought the different peoples and places of the planet into the sight of ordinary Americans.
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