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Fourth Artillery, Light Battery, U.S.A., Camp Tampa, Florida – Historic Print

Fourth Artillery, Light Battery, U.S.A., Camp Tampa, Florida, c1898. — historic photograph
Fourth Artillery, Light Battery, U.S.A., Camp Tampa, Florida, c1898.. Historic photograph from the Historic Print Archive 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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A window into the past: Fourth Artillery, Light Battery, U.S.A., Camp Tampa, Florida, preserved in this historic photograph. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.

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A stereograph of the Fourth Artillery's light battery at Camp Tampa, Florida, shows a unit encamped in the state during the Spanish-American War, when Tampa served as a major staging point for troops bound for Cuba in 1898. Such camps were crowded and hot, and many soldiers spent weeks there waiting for transport, with disease and shortages often a bigger problem than combat. The card was published by Strohmeyer & Wyman, a New York firm that issued stereo views for home parlor viewers, so the image was made to be seen in depth through a stereoscope. Its catalog date of about 1898 places it in the months of the war's mobilization.

Created / publishedc1898.
Medium1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph.
SubjectsStereo copyrighted by Strohmeyer & Wyman. No. 3. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Geogr.; Camps; Spanish-American War; Army, U.S.--Artillery.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 819 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-150581

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