A collection of black and white photographs showing the Havana high life from between the 1930s and 1950s, before Castro and the Revolution.
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Cuban Socialite Aline Johnson and friend Nina Gomez de Freyre receiving manicures. Havana, Cuba 1946. Photographer- Nina Leen. |
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Subject: Socialite (debutante) Aline Johnson de Menocal meeting with her personal staff to plan a party. Havana, Cuba 1946. Photographer: Nina Leen/Time Inc Owned. |
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Socialite (debutante) Aileen Johnson Menocal eating breakfast in bed. Painting above her is supposedly her Mother painted as Madonna? Havana, Cuba 1946. Photographer: Nina Leen/Time Inc Owned. |
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Outdoor party with silk canopies for socialites attending parties of Cuba's first lady La condesa de Comargo. Havan, Cuba 1950. Photographer: Eliot Elisofon/Time Inc Owned. |
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Cuban Socialite party where the Mothers chaperone their unmarried daughters. Party of socialite La Condesa de Comargo. Havana, Cuba 1950. Photographer: Eliot Elisofon/Time Inc Owned. |
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A bartender mixes an exotic tropical cocktail at a bar in 1946 in Havana, Cuba. (Photo by Earl leaf/Michael Ochs Archive/Getty Images) |
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Dealer Roulette at National Casino, 1958 (Photo by Francis Miller/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images) |
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September 1958: American cars parked in front of President Batista's palace at Havana. (Photo by Central Press/Getty Images) |
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Cheaper gambling casino in Havana, 1958. (Photo by Francis Miller/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images) |
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All forms of gambling such as: roulette, craps, and slot-machines at Riviera Hotel, 1958. (Photo by Francis Miller/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images) |
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Cuban socialite Aline Johnson de Menocal with friends posing by a swimming pool. Havana, Cuba 1946. Photographer- Nina Leen/Time Inc Owned. |
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A view of people dancing at a Cuban club, 1937. (Photo by Wallace Kirkland/The LIFE Images Collection/Getty Images) |
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A view of people dancing at a Cuban club, 1937. (Photo by Wallace Kirkland/The LIFE Images Collection/Getty Images) |
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A view of people dancing at a Cuban club, 1937. (Photo by Wallace Kirkland/The LIFE Images Collection/Getty Images) |
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A view of people dancing at a Cuban club, 1937. (Photo by Wallace Kirkland/The LIFE Images Collection/Getty Images) |
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A Cuban rhumba dancer named Zulema performs on stage with a band at the Zombie Club on Zulueta Street, Havana, Cuba, February 16, 1946. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images) |
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Three women perched on the bar at the Cabaret Kursal nightclub in Havana, Cuba, circa 1950. (Photo by Herbert C. Lanks/FPG/Hulton Archive/Getty Images) |
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Guests enjoying a buffet supper at the Havana Yacht Club, circa 1950. (Photo by Herbert C. Lanks/Keystone/Hulton Archive/Getty Images) |
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