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  • From coverage of revisit to Material World Project family in Cuba, 2001. The Costa family, with whatever new possessions they have acquired since the shooting of the photograph of the family with all of its possessions for the 1994 book Material World: A Global Family Portrait.
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  • Eulina Costa Allouis has turned the front room of her small apartment into a beauty parlor. Originally, she did the business on the roof of their home, out of sight from prying government eyes as no one was supposed to have a private business. Restrictions are less rigorous these days. Marianao district, Cuba. From coverage of revisit to Material World Project family in Cuba, 2001.
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  • Euripedes Costa watches television during a rare peaceful moment when his grandchildren are not running through the house or playing their music loudly. Marianao district of Havana, Cuba. From coverage of revisit to Material World Project family in Cuba, 2001.
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  • Ramon Costa and Sandra Raymond and their teenaged daughter, Lisandra, and 6-year-old son Favio eat dinner in the narrow 2-story makeshift apartment behind Ramon's father's house in the Marianao district of Havana. They are eating a dinner of rice and beans, French-fried malanga, salad, fresh orange juice, and bananas. From coverage of revisit to Material World Project family in Cuba, 2001.
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  • Iris Garcia Costa and her mother Eulina Costa Allouis, compare their respective photos from their traditional 15th birthday parties; a special coming-of-age party for young women called a Quinceañera, or 15th Birthday.
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  • Iris Garcia Costa poses for a portrait with her parents Montecristi Garcia and Eulina Costa at her fifteenth birthday party. The Quinceañera, is the traditional coming-of-age party for 15-year-old girls in Cuba, and other Spanish speaking countries. From coverage of revisit to Material World Project family in Cuba, 2001.
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  • Iris Garcia Costa poses for photographs at La Maison?a location often used in Cuba for a girls' Quinceañera, the traditional 15th birthday coming-of-age party. Revisit of Material World project 2001.
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  • Iris Garcia Costa poses at one of the myriad locations a photographer takes her for her fifteenth birthday photo shoot. The traditional 15th birthday coming-of-age party for young girls is called a Quinceañera. The Costa's live in the Marianao district of Havana, Cuba.  From coverage of revisit to Material World Project family in Cuba, 2001.
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  • Iris Garcia Costa is toasted during her Quinceañera, or 15th Birthday, by her friends and parents (Montecristi Garcia, center left, and Eulina Costa, center right. The Quinceañera is the traditional coming-of-age party for 15-year-old girls in Cuba, and other Spanish speaking countries. From coverage of revisit to Material World Project family in Cuba, 2001.
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  • Sunset in old Havana, Cuba.
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  • "Revolucion" painted on a wall surrounding some crumbling buildings in Havana, Cuba.
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  • Nineteen-fifties American car in old Havana, Cuba.
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  • A view of old Havana and central Havana, with the national capitol uppermost in the image. Havana, Cuba.
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  • Colonial architecture in old Havana, Cuba.
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  • A young girl in dress up clothes and sun hat has a cold drink at a hotel bar in old Havana, Cuba.
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  • Iris Garcia Costa steals a nap after her fifteenth birthday photo shoot in various locations around Old Havana. The traditional 15th birthday coming-of-age party and whirlwind of activities for young girls is called a Quinceañera. The Costa's live in the Marianao district of Havana, Cuba.  From coverage of revisit to Material World Project family in Cuba, 2001.
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  • Museum of the Revolution, Havana, Cuba. (Museo de la Revolución).
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  • Crumbling (and slowly renovating) Old Havana, Cuba.
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  • Old Havana, Cuba.
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  • Children walk to school under colonial archways, and past fifties-era American cars, in downtown Havana, Cuba.
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  • Laundry drying on balconies in downtown Old Havana, Cuba.
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  • El Castillo del Morro lighthouse, in the port of old Havana, Cuba.
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  • Young couples at sunset on the sea wall bordering the port (Malecón) in old Havana, Cuba.
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  • Stage show at the Tropicana Nightclub, Havana, Cuba.
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