A company of the Cuban army, Pinar del Rio, Cuba – 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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A company of the Cuban army, Pinar del Rio, Cuba 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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A company of the Cuban army, Pinar del Rio, Cuba
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The setting is Pinar del Rio, the westernmost province of Cuba, and this stereo card shows a company of the Cuban army there. Published in New York by Strohmeyer & Wyman around 1899, it was one of many views made for the stereoscope, which let American viewers at home see distant places and the recent war in apparent three dimensions. Cuban fighters had resisted Spanish rule for decades, and in 1898 they fought alongside United States forces in the campaign that ended Spanish control of the island. The card offers a glimpse of those soldiers as the American public of the period was invited to see them.
| Created / published | New York : Strohmeyer & Wyman, publishers, c1899. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph. |
| Genre | Photographic prints 1890-1900.Stereographs 1890-1900. |
| Notes | 46729 U.S. Copyright Office. |
| Subjects | Spanish-American War, 1898--Military personnel--Cuba--Pinar del Río. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 750 px · prints to 5 × 2 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-164420 |
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