In the trenches on San Juan Hill, Cuba – Vintage Wall Art
(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: In the trenches on San Juan Hill, Cuba, preserved in this historic photograph. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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In the trenches on San Juan Hill, Cuba
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Few views from the 1898 war carry the name of San Juan Hill as directly as this stereograph, which shows men in trenches cut into the ground near Santiago de Cuba. The U.S. Army assaulted the hill on July 1, 1898, and the fighting, in which Theodore Roosevelt's Rough Riders took part, became one of the best-known episodes of the Spanish-American War. The card was copyrighted by M.H. Zahner and published by Griffith & Griffith around 1899, when stereoscopic views like this were sold to American households so people could see distant battlefields in three dimensions. Because the caption information is old and unverified, the exact location and date should be treated as approximate.
| Created / published | c1899. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph. |
| Subjects | Stereo copyrighted by M.H. Zahner; Griffith & Griffith, publisher. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Trench warfare; Cuba--San J- H-; Army, US; US Hist.--War of 1898; Photog. I.; Shelf. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 806 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-132896 |
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