The Philippines, Porto Rico and Cuba - Uncle Sam's burden – Historic Reproduction
(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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Staged as an allegory, this stereograph names the Philippines, Puerto Rico and Cuba in its title and presents them as a load carried by Uncle Sam. The Keystone View Company of Meadville, Pennsylvania, published it around 1899, while the terms of the Spanish-American War were still being settled. The title echoes Rudyard Kipling's 1899 poem "The White Man's Burden," which framed imperial rule as a duty. Cards like this one, sold for viewing through stereoscopes in parlors, helped bring the new overseas possessions into ordinary American households as a moral argument.
| Created / published | Meadville, Pa. : Keystone View Company, manufacturers and publishers, c1899. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph. |
| Genre | Allegories 1890-1900.Photographic prints 1890-1900.Stereographs 1890-1900. |
| Notes | No. 9964. Copyright by B.L. Singley. |
| Subjects | Spanish-American War, 1898--Military personnel--American. Spanish-American War, 1898--Children. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 735 px · prints to 5 × 2 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-164421 |
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