1909 Cayey Puerto Rico

1909 vintage postcard. A stunning lithograph postcard of a town scene at Cayey, Porto Rico. "Cayey is an important inland town, 2,300 feet above the sea and about 37 miles from San Juan on the military road from there to Ponce. During the Spanish-American war the city was about to be attached, [attacked] when news was received of the signing of the protocol."

Note that “Porto” spelling looks odd: In browsing online newspapers it appears that both spellings were being used at least as early as the 1890s. At some point “Puerto” became the standard, but we have found evidence of “Porto” as late as the mid-1950s.

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