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Landing of U.S. troops near Santiago, Spanish-American War scene – Historic Reproduction

Landing of U.S. troops near Santiago, Spanish-American War scene, 1902 — historic photograph
Landing of U.S. troops near Santiago, Spanish-American War scene, 1902. Historic photograph from the Latin America collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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Landing of U.S. troops near Santiago, Spanish-American War scene comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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The record describes this as a landing of U.S. troops near Santiago, and it is an enlargement taken from a motion picture made by the American Mutoscope & Biograph Company, so it shows a single frame rather than a still photograph. The caption card dates it to 1902, but that date is unverified. The landing it depicts belongs to the 1898 campaign in eastern Cuba, when American forces came ashore near Daiquirí and Siboney to attack Spanish defenders around Santiago de Cuba. Because the image comes from early motion picture footage, it is worth reading as a record of how the war was filmed and presented to audiences at home.

Created / published1902
Medium1 photographic print.
NotesEnlargement from motion picture by American Mutoscope & Biograph Co. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,031 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-107803

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