Cuban soldiers, Guanabacoa, Cuba – Vintage 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 window into the past: Cuban soldiers, Guanabacoa, Cuba, preserved in this historic photograph. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Cuban soldiers, Guanabacoa, Cuba
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Guanabacoa, a town just east of Havana, is the setting for this stereograph of soldiers, a pairing of two nearly identical photographs that gave a three-dimensional view when seen through a stereoscope. It was made and published by B.W. Kilburn of Littleton, New Hampshire, around 1899, a year after the United States and Spain fought the Spanish-American War, which ended Spanish rule in Cuba. Kilburn's firm sold such cards by the thousands to American households and schools, so the image reflects how many Americans first saw the island and its occupation. The card's subject line ties the soldiers to that war, making it a record of the military presence that followed the conflict.
| Created / published | Littleton, N.H. : Photographed and published by B.W. Kilburn, c1899. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph. |
| Genre | Stereographs 1890-1900.Photographic prints 1890-1900. |
| Notes | 13033 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 12922. |
| Subjects | Spanish-American War, 1898--Military personnel--Cuba--Guanabacoa. Soldiers--Cuba--Guanabacoa--1890-1900. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,096 × 3,284 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-181493 |
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