1914.   Osvaldo Salas is born in Havana.

Throughout his life he became a true artist of the lens, a man who reflected in images his sensitivity and his way of appreciating life.

He was described as a poet of the image. Capturing reality through his camera was one of the greatest motivations of his life.

His work achieved great national and international recognition and it can be said that he turned out to be a graphic chronicler of the times in which he lived.

He achieved great notoriety for his innumerable portraits and for his innovations in the art of photography.

For more than half a century he practiced this profession and it can be said that he photographed with singular art what his pupils saw.

In 1955 he met Fidel Castro and Juan Manuel Márquez when they traveled to New York to raise funds for the 26th of July Movement. He was then appointed by Fidel as photographer of that revolutionary movement.  In correspondence with that function, he captures demonstrations and other public events organized by the 26th of July Movement in the United States. He thus began to develop testimonial photography, which he would later continue and consolidate in Cuba after the triumph of the Revolution.

He obtained several awards and recognitions among them one in the 46th International Salon of photography of Japan Asahi Shimbún with his work René Portocarrero and his flora.

Although his work achieved international notoriety and it can be said that he made a contribution to world photography, he always appreciated it in a modest way. That is why it is not surprising that on one occasion, when answering what he considered his best photograph, he said: "The best, the one I will take tomorrow".

Osvaldo Salas died in Havana on May 6, 1992 when he was 78 years old.

1941.  The America Theater is inaugurated in Havana.

It was designed according to Art Deco codes and the most advanced technology of the time it was built. Prominent Cuban and foreign figures such as Gonzalo Roig, Ernesto Lecuona, Moisés Simons, Rita Montaner, Benny Moré, Pedro Vargas, Agustín Lara, Libertad Lamarque, among others, have performed on this stage. The América is currently a variety theater.