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Children at the Soledad school, Cuba. John W. Weeks, Jr., second row, second from left

Children at the Soledad school, Cuba. John W. Weeks, Jr., second row, second from left Photograph
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Photograph by Miguel A. Lagne, circa 1950

12.5 cm x 21 cm

From the Atkins family photographs
Photo. 37.17


Edwin Atkins and his successors for many years ran a school on the Soledad plantation for the children of E. Atkins & Co.'s employees.  This photograph depicts children from the Soledad school circa 1950, dressed up for a performance for the annual end-of-season festivities on the plantation.  Atkins's great-grandson, John W. Weeks, Jr. (grandson of Atkins's daughter Helen) is the blond boy facing the camera in the second row.