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Cuban girls banding the Havana cigar, after which they are boxed. Havana, Cuba, 1920.Bettman—Corbis
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Panorama showing train loaded with sugar leaving for N.Y., sugar mill, administration buildings and sugar cane plantation. Guantanamo, Cuba, 1920.Bettman—Corbis
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A cigar-factory employee with a large Havana Cigar. 1920.Bettman—Corbis
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Miss Lillian Molton, daughter of Cuba's tobacco king and judged the most beautiful girl in Havana, 1922.Bettman—Corbis
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Portrait of a typical Cuban peasant family. Cuba, 1921.Bettman—Corbis
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The U.S. military camping at Deer Point in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. 1923.Bettman—Corbis
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A peddler's cart in Havana, Cuba, 1925.Bettman—Corbis
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Hordes of people and motor cars crowd the waterfront as the Cunard liner Mauretania pulls into Havana, Cuba. 1925.General Photographic Agency—Getty Images
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Havana, Cuba, 1926.Print Collector—Getty Images
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U.S. Fleet in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, 1927.Bettmann—Corbis
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A Spanish Baroque-style church with the columns of an arcade in the foreground in Havana, Cuba. 1928.Bettman—Corbis
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A view of Central Park in Havana, Cuba. 1928.Bettman—Corbis
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View of the veranda of the clubhouse at Oriental Park, Havana, during the December Holiday season. 1929.Bettman—Corbis
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The bathing beach in Havana, Cuba, 1929.Underwood Archives—Getty Images
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The Presidential Palace in Havana, Cuba, 1929.AP Photo
President Barack Obama’s official visit to Cuba this week is the first such trip in nearly 90 years. The last–and only–time a sitting U.S. President visited Cuba was Calvin Coolidge in 1928:

U.S. President Calvin Coolidge, second from left, and his wife, first lady Grace Coolidge, third from left, are shown with the President of Cuba General Gerardo Machado y Morales, right, and his wife, Elvira Machado, left, on the estate of President Machado in Havana, Cuba, Jan. 19, 1928.
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The Cuba Obama’s visiting has a reputation as a place frozen in time, but that’s not really true. Just look at these images from Cuba in the 1920s.
Read more about Coolidge’s visit here: The Only Other Time a Sitting President Visited Cuba
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