Transports leaving Tampa for Cuba – Vintage Print
(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 Transports leaving Tampa for Cuba, 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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Transports leaving Tampa for Cuba
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This stereograph shows troop transports leaving Tampa, Florida, for Cuba, with the ship Vigilance named in its caption. Tampa served as a major staging port in 1898, when the U.S. Army gathered men and supplies there for the invasion of Cuba during the Spanish-American War. The caption also tags African Americans as a subject, and Black regiments, including the Ninth and Tenth Cavalry, were among the units that sailed for the campaign. Keystone View Company, which sold stereo cards to a wide public, issued the card under the copyright of photographer B.L. Singley, so the image reflects how Americans at home encountered the war through commercial views.
| Created / published | c1898. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph. |
| Subjects | Stereo copyrighted by B.L. Singley (Keystone View Co.). No. 9254. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Spanish-American War; Geogr.; African Americans; Ships--VIGILANCE. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 809 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-143150 |
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