The Long Island Railroad: Pain's Great War Spectacle, Siege of Vera Cruz poster – Vintage Poster
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A window into the past: The Long Island Railroad: Pain's Great War Spectacle, Siege of Vera Cruz poster, preserved in this vintage poster. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.
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The Long Island Railroad: Pain's Great War Spectacle, Siege of Vera Cruz poster
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The poster advertises Pain's Great War Spectacle, a fireworks-and-scenery show that re-created the Siege of Vera Cruz, and its heading also names the Long Island Railroad. The real siege took place in March 1847, when Winfield Scott's army landed near the Mexican port and bombarded the city for about three weeks before its surrender. It was the first large-scale amphibious assault in United States military history. Pain's company staged such battle reenactments for paying crowds in the nineteenth century, so the poster shows how a distant war became popular entertainment.
| Original scan | 2,849 × 2,021 px · prints to 9 × 7 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | 0535u |
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