The Fight for Santiago. The Twelfth and Twenty-Fifth Infantry taking the blockhouse of El Caney, July 1st – Antique Wall Art
(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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Few images capture their era like this antique engraving of The Fight for Santiago. The Twelfth and Twenty-Fifth Infantry taking the blockhouse of El Caney, July 1st. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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The Fight for Santiago. The Twelfth and Twenty-Fifth Infantry taking the blockhouse of El Caney, July 1st
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The Library's print shows the Twelfth and Twenty-Fifth Infantry storming the blockhouse at El Caney on July 1, 1898. The fight was one of the opening actions of the American campaign against Santiago de Cuba, launched the same morning as the advance toward San Juan Hill. The image is a wood engraving after a drawing by W.J. Glackens, who later became a leading figure of the Ashcan School of painting. It ran in *McClure's Magazine* in October 1898, showing how readers in 1898 followed the war through illustrated periodicals.
| Created / published | 1898 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : wood engraving. |
| Subjects | Wood engraving after a drawing by W.J. Glackens. Illus. in: McClure's Magazine, 1898 Oct., p. 508. Ref. copy may be in SSF (Gr) - SPANISH AMERICAN WAR--SANTIAGO. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Sp-Am War; Cuba; Army, U.S.--Units; Publ. Ind. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 949 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-155478 |
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