Havana, Cuba Photo - Official Reception Hall of gthe El Capitolio Nacional

The Havana Capitol is known as El Capitolio. Built from April 1, 1926-1929, the building costs 17 million Pesos and is bigger than the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C. The Capitol houses treasures such as the statue that represents the Republic, which was made by Italian artist Angelo Zanelli and is considered the world's third largest sculpture indoors. After the triumph of the Revolution in 1959, the Capitol became the headquarters of the Academy of Sciences of Cuba and then became the Ministry of Science, Technology and Environment. Salon de los Pasos Perdidos. Official reception hall of gthe El Capitolio Nacional, in the Renaissance style, 400 feet long and 45 feet tall.

Carol M. Highsmith (born 1946) is a photographer, author, and publisher who has photographed all 50 of the United States, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico for 30 years. She specializes in documenting architecture, ranging from the monumental to the everyday and whimsical. Highsmith is donating her life ’s work of more than 100,000 images, copyright-free, to the Library of Congress, which established a rare one-person archive. Out of 14 million images, the Carol M. Highsmith collection is featured in the top six alongside of Mathew Brady and Dorethea Lange.

Credit line: The Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.