These fascinating photos were taken by
Manel Armengol that show everyday life of Cuba in 1976.
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Cuba, Matanzas, 1976. An old colonial street of Santa Clara. A sign marks the headquarters of the Workers' Social Circle |
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Cuba, Matanzas, 1976. Colorful masks announcing the Carnival in a square in Matanzas |
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Cuba, Matanzas, 1976. Political slogan 'To decide and govern with the people's power' on top of a colonial building |
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Cuba, Matanzas, 1976. Pool and garden of a national tourism resort in Cuba |
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Cuba, Matanzas, 1976. Two buses at avenue with colonial buildings |
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Cuba, Santa Clara, 1976. Building of the Nueva Trova of Cuba |
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Cuba, Santa Clara, 1976. Colonial building at Parque Vidal, esquina del Museo de Artes Decorativas |
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Cuba, Santa Clara, 1976. Lattice of a house and boys talking in the neighborhood of the ancient Havana |
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Cuba, Santa Clara, 1976. Maceo street |
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Cuba, Santa Clara, 1976. Man unloading flour sacks from his truck |
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Cuba, Santa Clara, 1976. Santa Clara Libre Hotel |
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Cuba, Santa Clara, 1976. Havana's Coppelia building (left) is one of the largest ice cream parlors in the world. Holding 1000 guests, it is located on the part of Calle 23 known as La Rampa in the Vedado district. There is also the headquarters of La Nueva Trova |
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Cuba, Trinidad, 1976. A man walking and old truck |
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Cuba, Trinidad, 1976. Three men on the street |
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Group of traditional musicians 'Septeto Tradicional de Santa Clara' |
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Cuba, 1976. A group of happy mothers with a child |
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Cuba, 1976. A teacher taking care of children playing with their toys |
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Cuba, 1976. Area with a processing agricultural products plant and workers' housing |
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Cuba, 1976. Boys playing in the waves on a beach |
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Cuba, 1976. Boys playing with a kite in an agricultural region with farmers' houses and palm trees along the lake |
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Cuba, 1976. Children doing school work |
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Cuba, 1976. Children having fun in front of the camera |
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Cuba, 1976. Children in a kindergarten in front of TV |
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Cuba, 1976. Country road in the interior of the island. Warning over rail crossing, truck and people passing. A billboard recommends "More productivity and More development" |
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Cuba, 1976. Cuban families on holidays having fun at the beach |
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Cuba, 1976. Cuban families on holidays having fun at the beach |
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Cuba, 1976. Cuban farmer |
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Cuba, 1976. Cuban men waving good-bye |
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Cuba, 1976. Cubans on holiday at the beach. Santa María del Mar beach, near Guanabo and Havana |
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Cuba, 1976. Farmers home and two young girls in their garden |
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Cuba, 1976. Girls playing combing dolls during recess at a nursery |
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Cuba, 1976. Interior of a school with children doing school work |
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Cuba, 1976. Little girl at the entrance to her home |
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Cuba, 1976. Man sitting in his green wagon pulled by a horse, laughing and pointing a direction with his arm |
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Cuba, 1976. Man with a straw hat and a blue truck |
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Cuba, 1976. Members of ANAP (Asociación Nacional de Agricultores Pequeños) in a informative session with professors and journalists from Barcelona, Spain |
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Cuba, 1976. Oasis with palm trees in the interior of Cuba |
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Cuba, 1976. Old American cars parked on a street with old houses. In a sign at the street: "Emulation Meetings between CDR and Zoning Committee announced" |
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Cuba, 1976. On the road, an old American car, a horse and cart and a tractor. Sign near the road of socialist government message: "To decide and govern with the people's power" |
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Cuba, 1976. People bathing in the sea and children running while the wind announces the arrival of a storm |
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Cuba, 1976. Red tractor in a Cuban farm |
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Cuba, 1976. Swinging in the playground of the nursery |
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Cuba, 1976. Three boys with a kite |
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Cuba, 1976. Two men unload a truck in the traditional way |
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Cuba, 1976. Women group with their child |
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Cuba, 1976. Zafrero (man who works in the Zafra harvesting sugarcane) |
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Cuba, Escambray Mountains, 1976. Public transport, bus line |
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Cuba, Habana Vieja, 1976. Headquarters building of Regional Committee Centro-Habana del C.D.R |
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Cuba, Havana, 1976. In a bar, a customer pays their consumption to the cashier who works with an old cash machine |
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Cuba, La Habana, 1976. Bacardí Building (ancient US Embassy in Havana) |
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Cuba, La Habana, 1976. Hotel in a touristic area |
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Cuba, La Habana, 1976. Hotel Nacional |
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Cuba, La Habana, 1976. Large mural with the image of revolutionary Che Guevara on the facade of a building in the Plaza de la Revolución |
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Cuba, La Habana, 1976. National Library José Martí |
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Cuba, La Habana, 1976. People on the street of a neighborhood of Havana |
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Cuba, La Habana, 1976. Popular votations to elect a representative of the District |
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Cuba, La Habana, 1976. Poster announcing the return to school and to countryside in September |
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Cuba, La Habana, 1976. Sierra Maestra Theater |
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Cuba, La Habana, 1976. US tank and American truck confiscated during the Cuban Revolution, displayed in a square in Havana |
(Photos © Manel Armengol)