Digitized Printed Sources for Havana History
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Havana Newspapers
The Biblioteca Nacional de España in Madrid has a collection of fully digitized historical newspapers in their Hemeroteca Digital, including the titles listed below, running from 1793 through 1819 (there are many later titles as well). An excellent text search feature provides access to any or all of these or other newspapers.
Papel periódico de La Havana (10/03/1793-26/04/1804)
El Aviso (La Havana) (27/10/1805-20/02/1810)
Diario de La Habana (10/10/1810-31/12/1819)
El Lince (Habana) (01/02/1811-01/05/1812)
Diario cívico (01/10/1812-30/09/1813)
El Esquife (Habana) (01/09/1813-24/05/1814)
Havana Commerce
Guia del Comercio de la Habana para el año de 1823 (1822)
Balanza General del Comercio de la Isla de Cuba
1826 (1827) / 1831 (1832) / 1840 (1841) / 1845 (1846)
Cuadro Estadístico de la Siempre Fiel Isla de Cuba
1827 (1829) (also here) / 1846 (1847)
Histories of Cuba
The digitized classic books below are early secondary sources about the history of Havana and Cuba generally.
Historia de la Isla de Cuba y en especial de La Habana, by Valdes, Antonio José (1813)
Historia economico-politica y estadistica de la isla de Cuba; ó sea de sus progresos en la poblacion, la agricultura, el comercio y las rentas by Sagra, Ramón de la (1831)
Ensayo Histórico de la Isla de Cuba, by Pezuela, Jacobo de la (1842)
History of Cuba; or, Notes of a traveller in the Tropics. Being a political, historical, and statistical account of the island, from its first discovery to the present time, by Ballou, Maturin Murray (1854)
Historia de la isla de Cuba, by Pezuela, Jacobo de la (1868)
Due south; or, Cuba past and present, by Ballou, Maturin Murray (1888)
Historia de España en América (Isla de Cuba), by Alcázar, José de (1898)
Páginas para la historia de la isla de Cuba, by Arnao, Juan (1900)
Resumen de la historia de Cuba, by Morales y Morales, Vidal, Pérez Martínez, Isidro, b. 1878 (1918)