Advertising Card on Vol. 135, No 6. June 1999 issue on Cuba
Washington, DC: National Geographic Society, 1999. Presumed one of multiple originals. Single sheet, printed on one side. Format is approximately 6.25 inches by 4.5 inches. There is a color image of a boy with his head sticking out of a car window that covers the right side of the card. The left side is an image of the front cover of Volume IX, Number 5, May 1898, identified as the Cuba Number and published at the time of the Spanish American War. The front cover photo of the June 1999 issue was taken by David Alan Harvey. David Alan Harvey (born June 6, 1944) is an American photographer, based in The Outer Banks, North Carolina and New York City. He was a full member of the Magnum Photos agency from 1997 to 2020 and has photographed extensively for National Geographic magazine. In 1978 Harvey was named Magazine Photographer of the Year by the National Press Photographers Association. He is the founder and curator of Burn, a website showing the work of emerging photographers. His two major books, Cuba and Divided Soul, are based on the Spanish cultural migration into the Americas, and Living Proof deals with hip-hop culture. One of Harvey's photographs of a father and daughter from Malaysia is included on the Voyager Golden Record. More