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Preparing to embark for Cuba, Tampa, Fla., U.S.A. – Historic Reproduction

Preparing to embark for Cuba, Tampa, Fla., U.S.A., Cincinnati, Ohio: Whiting View Company, c1900. — historic photograph
Preparing to embark for Cuba, Tampa, Fla., U.S.A., Cincinnati, Ohio: Whiting View Company, c1900.. 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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Tampa was the main staging ground for the U.S. Army's expedition to Cuba during the Spanish-American War, and this stereograph captures the waterfront where soldiers and supplies were readied for the crossing. In the summer of 1898, thousands of troops camped around Tampa and nearby Port Tampa while transports were loaded at the piers. The card was issued by the Whiting Brothers of Cincinnati around 1900, when stereo views of recent military events were popular with home audiences who used them in parlor viewers to relive the war.

Created / publishedCincinnati, Ohio: Whiting View Company, c1900.
Medium1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph.
GenreStereographs 1900.Photographic prints 1900.
NotesD8215 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 501. Copyright by Whiting Bros.
SubjectsSpanish-American War, 1898--Military mobilizations--Florida--Tampa. Piers & wharves--Florida--Tampa--1900. Troop movements--Florida--Tampa--1900.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan2,750 × 4,096 px · prints to 9 × 14 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-215608

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