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Pageant, Vets of Foreign Wars, scene at Santiago – Vintage Wall Art

Pageant, Vets of Foreign Wars, scene at Santiago, [1920] — historic photograph
Pageant, Vets of Foreign Wars, scene at Santiago, [1920]. Historic photograph from the National Photo Company 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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Step back in time with Pageant, Vets of Foreign Wars, scene at Santiago, a historic photograph rich in period detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.

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A staged scene of Santiago, a reenactment staged for a Veterans of Foreign Wars pageant, recalls the 1898 Battle of Santiago de Cuba, the decisive naval and land engagement of the Spanish-American War. The VFW, founded by veterans of that conflict and later wars, used such pageants to keep the memory of their service in public view. The National Photo Company, a Washington, D.C., firm known for documenting public events and daily life in the early twentieth century, made the picture around 1920. Its glass negative shows the streaks and blemishes that come with age in the original coating, which adds to its value as a record of how veterans were commemorated after the war.

Created / published[1920]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 4 x 5 in. or smaller
GenreGlass negatives.
NotesTitle from unverified data provided by the National Photo Company on the negatives or negative sleeves. Date from negatives in same range. Gift; Herbert A. French; 1947. This glass negative might show streaks and other blemishes resulting from a natural deterioration in the original coatings. Temp. note: Batch one.
SourceLibrary of Congress, National Photo Company Collection
Original scan5,329 × 4,274 px · prints to 18 × 14 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-NPC-231609

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