🇺🇸 🇨🇺 **The “Gem of the Caribbean”: a U.S. colony in…Cuba?**

_I recently had the good fortune of cataloging one such small assortment of maps that introduced me to a sliver of American history I was entirely ignorant of: the “McKinley Colony, Cuba, plat map collection, 1904-1911.”_

🔗 https://blogs.loc.gov/maps/2025/09/gem-of-the-caribbean/.

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