The canvas tents which originally housed rafters were eventually replaced by "hard-backed tents." This model tent was set up by the military to demonstrate the improvements that would be made.
Received by the Rubenstein Library in 2009 as a gift from Mr. Guarioné Díaz, the Presidentially appointed Ombudsman at Guantánamo. Photographed by Mr. Siro del Castillo, Assistant to the Ombudsman.
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Materials related to Cuban, Dominican and Haitian maritime migration from 1965-1996, including camps at the U.S. Naval Station, Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, 1991-1996.
