Explosion of the Vizcaya, Battle of Santiago, July 3, 1898 – Antique Print
![Explosion of the Vizcaya, Battle of Santiago, July 3, 1898, [between 1898 and 1901] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/b4/b496f11601e9-L.webp)
(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: Explosion of the Vizcaya, Battle of Santiago, July 3, 1898, 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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Explosion of the Vizcaya, Battle of Santiago, July 3, 1898
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The armored cruiser *Vizcaya* was among the Spanish warships that tried to leave Santiago harbor on July 3, 1898, and the American squadron destroyed them within a few hours. The ship was run aground west of the harbor, and the defeat ended Spain's naval power in the Caribbean. This glass-plate negative, probably made after the battle, comes from the Detroit Publishing Company, a firm that sold views of the American landscape and of events like this one. It captures the violence of the ship's destruction in the aftermath of the battle.
| Created / published | [between 1898 and 1901] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in. |
| Genre | Dry plate negatives.Photographic prints Reproductions. |
| Notes | Date based on Detroit, Catalogue J (1901). Detroit Publishing Co. no. 021536. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949. |
| Subjects | Vizcaya (Ship) Government vessels--Spanish. Santiago, Battle of, Santiago de Cuba, Cuba, 1898. Explosions. Naval warfare.Cuba--Santiago de Cuba. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection |
| Original scan | 973 × 796 px |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-DET-64600 |
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