USS Omaha putting in to Havana harbor with the Malecón in the foreground, Cuba, 1939. The USS Omaha (CL-4) is a light cruiser built 1916-1919, launched in 1920, and decomissioned after World War II, in November 1945, and scrapped in 1946. My dad served as a radioman the Omaha from 1937 to 1940. It had a crew of 29 officers and 429 enlisted men. When dad was on it, it spent a year in the Mediterranean docking at Villefranche and Menton, then Malta, then the Caribbean, docking in Havana in December 1939, then to Washington DC, Philadelphia, San Juan, Guantánamo, Havana again, and back to the Mediterranean to "protect US civilians and interests" in the Spanish Civil War. Dad was transferred to the destroyer tender USS Denebola in April of 1940 (after the Spanish war ended).

Cards like these, not to mention oil paintings, scarves, and who knows what else, were a big industry in port cities. Whenever a ship put in to port, the local artisans would have them ready before the sailors got shore leave.