Cubans in their trenches - Awaiting the Spaniards - Pinar del Rio, Cuba – 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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Step back in time with Cubans in their trenches - Awaiting the Spaniards - Pinar del Rio, Cuba, a historic photograph rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Cubans in their trenches - Awaiting the Spaniards - Pinar del Rio, Cuba
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Few pictures from the Spanish-American War show the fighting as this stereograph does: Cuban insurgent soldiers crouched in a dug-in position at Pinar del Río, waiting for Spanish troops to come into range. The card was issued in New York around 1899 by Strohmeyer & Wyman and sold through Underwood & Underwood, firms that turned war views into popular parlor entertainment. Viewed through a stereoscope, the trench gives a sense of depth that a flat photograph cannot, though the scene was likely staged for the camera, as many war views of the period were. Pinar del Río, at the western tip of Cuba, was one of the regions where the rebellion against Spanish rule was fought in the years before 1898.
| Created / published | New York, N.Y. : Strohmeyer & Wyman, publishers, c1899. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph. |
| Genre | Stereographs 1890-1900.Photographic prints 1890-1900. |
| Notes | 28370 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Strohmeyer & Wyman. Sold only by Underwood & Underwood. |
| Subjects | Spanish-American War, 1898--Cuba--Pinar del Río--Trench warfare. Soldiers--Cuba--Pinar del Río--1890-1900. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,096 × 3,285 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-197803 |
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