The book is a notable piece within the printed work of Landaluze from Bilbao. In its pages, it takes up the theme of the popular types in 1872. In addition, it established an iconography of obligatory consultation on the Creole and colonial Cuba of the second half of the 19th century. He represents exceptionally. As Bachiller y Morales points out in the introduction to the volume, the communicating vessels between illustration and literature play an exceptional role in the representation of social types through the portrait of society and the physiognomy of peoples. This is an important visual document and the best reflection in our art of popular life in the 19th century in Cuba.