[Potomac Park, Rose Garden, Cuban urn commemorating the victims of the Maine, Washington, D.C.] – Vintage Print
![[Potomac Park, Rose Garden, Cuban urn commemorating the victims of the Maine, Washington, D.C.], [between 1928 and 1960] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/1c/1ce93d4db658-L.webp)
(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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This historic photograph of [Potomac Park, Rose Garden, Cuban urn commemorating the victims of the Maine, Washington, D.C.] brings a moment of history to your wall. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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[Potomac Park, Rose Garden, Cuban urn commemorating the victims of the Maine, Washington, D.C.]
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Few monuments in the capital carry a history as specific as this urn in the Potomac Park Rose Garden, a gift from Cuba honoring the sailors lost when the battleship Maine exploded in Havana Harbor on February 15, 1898. The blast killed 266 American crew members and helped push the United States into war with Spain that spring. An urn honoring those dead stands in Washington rather than Havana, a gesture from a newly independent Cuba to the nation whose intervention had helped end Spanish rule. The photograph, taken sometime between 1928 and 1960, shows how the memorial had settled into the everyday life of the park.
| Created / published | [between 1928 and 1960] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Genre | Photographic prints 1920-1960. |
| Subjects | Maine (Battleship) Monuments & memorials--Washington (D.C.)--1920-1960. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 977 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-169133 |
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