How the horses died for their country at Santiago / Frederic Remington. – Historic Reproduction
(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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How the horses died for their country at Santiago / Frederic Remington.
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Few images from the Spanish-American War focus on the animals rather than the soldiers, and this one does. Frederic Remington drew it as a wartime illustration, and this halftone reproduction ran in *Harper's Weekly* on July 15, 1899, a year after the fighting. The scene shows the horses that were left dead around Santiago de Cuba following the American campaign there in the summer of 1898. Cavalry and artillery animals suffered heavily from exhaustion, poor forage, heat, and disease, and their losses were a real cost of the campaign. Remington, known for his western and military subjects, gave the animals the dignity of a fallen soldier, which is worth noticing in the title itself.
| Created / published | 1899 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photomechanical print : halftone. |
| Genre | Periodical illustrations 1890-1900.Halftone photomechanical prints 1890-1900. |
| Notes | Illus. in: Harper's weekly, 1899 July 15, pp. 698-699. |
| Subjects | Horses--Cuba--Santiago de Cuba--1890-1900. Dead animals--Cuba--Santiago de Cuba--1890-1900. Santiago, Battle of, Santiago de Cuba, Cuba, 1898. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 979 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-169455 |
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