The Fight for Santiago – 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 The Fight for Santiago, an antique engraving rich in period detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Drawn by W.J. Glackens, who later became a member of the Ashcan School, this wood engraving titled *The Fight for Santiago* ran in *McClure's Magazine* in October 1898. It shows the campaign against Santiago de Cuba, the Spanish port on the island's southeast coast, where U.S. forces and the Spanish navy clashed in July 1898 before Spain surrendered the city. Magazine illustrations of the war were usually based on sketches made near the front, so the print offers a correspondent's view of a conflict that filled American newspapers and periodicals that year.
| Created / published | 1898 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : wood engraving. |
| Subjects | Wood engraving after a drawing by W.J. Glackens. Illus. in: McClure's Magazine, 1898 Oct., p. 504. Ref. copy may be in SSF (Gr) - SPANISH AMERICAN WAR--SANTIAGO. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Sp-Am War; Cuba--Santiago; Publ. Ind. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 935 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-155475 |
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