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A Century of Photos
JUNE 1999
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They're fun. They're quirky. And they're full of surprises. Now more than a century of adventures and photographic memories from the magazine's archive are just a click away.
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JUNE 1999
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Working for the Love of the Leaf
The finest cigars in the world come from Cuba, say devotees—and the finest Cuban cigars have always been hand-rolled. In the 1920s at Havana's Henry Clay and Bock & Company, the leaf rollers' daily tedium was eased by a lector on an elevated platform, who read aloud from newspapers, novels, union tracts, even letters. This photograph was never published in GEOGRAPHIC.
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