1950 Havana Cuba Ephemera Lot Tropicana Visitors Guide Hotel Vedado Letter For Sale

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1950 Havana Cuba Ephemera Lot Tropicana Visitors Guide Hotel Vedado Letter:
$125.00

A rare grouping of pre-revolution Havana travel ephemera, apparently assembled by one traveler during a March 1950 trip. The pieces are tied together by a Hotel Vedado stamp, Hotel Vedado letterhead, and a postcard dated in Havana.

• Visitors Guide for Shopping and Entertainment, Havana. The cover shows Tropicana showgirls beneath the famous arch, and it's stamped "Compliments of Vedado Hotel." Inside are period advertising, including a full-page Trocadero Banana Cordial ad, and a page of English–Spanish phrases for tourists.
• Havana Arrivals, A Weekly Newsmagazine. A Tropicana garden cover. Billed as "Who's Who Among Visitors to Cuba," it listed new arrivals in the city.
• Handwritten letter on Hotel Vedado letterhead. A traveler's firsthand account that mentions the Hotel Nacional. [Add the page count and any date.]
• Album de la Iglesia de La Merced. A bilingual souvenir booklet for Havana's Our Lady of Mercy Church, run by the Vincentian Fathers.
• Statue of José Martí postcard, postally used. Postmarked Havana, March 21, 1950, with the "Compre Azúcar Cubano / Buy Cuban Sugar" slogan cancel and a 1¢ Tabaco Habano stamp. Mailed to New Jersey, the message mentions onward travel to Casablanca, Tangiers, and Genoa.
• Two Prado and Morro Castle linen postcards. Unused, showing the Hotel Packard, the Prado promenade, and an ocean liner entering the harbor.

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