The Fight for Santiago - The beginning of the landing of troops at Daiquiri [Cuba] – Historic Print
![The Fight for Santiago - The beginning of the landing of troops at Daiquiri [Cuba], 1898 — antique engraving](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/c3/c31c5788eba5-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: The Fight for Santiago - The beginning of the landing of troops at Daiquiri [Cuba], preserved in this antique engraving. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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The Fight for Santiago - The beginning of the landing of troops at Daiquiri [Cuba]
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Few pictures in this gallery show the landing itself, and this wood engraving records the first troops coming ashore at Daiquiri on Cuba's southeastern coast in June 1898. The image was made from a drawing by William J. Glackens, who was sketching for McClure's Magazine during the Spanish-American War, and it appeared in the magazine's October 1898 issue. The landing was the opening move of the campaign against Santiago de Cuba, where the Spanish fleet was trapped. Glackens's drawing gives a sense of the crowded, makeshift work of getting men and supplies from ship to shore.
| Created / published | 1898 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : wood engraving. |
| Subjects | Wood engraving from a drawing made on June 22d by W.J. Glackens. Illus. in: McClure's Magazine, 1898 Oct., p. 501. Ref. copy may be in SSF (Gr) - SPANISH AMERICAN WAR--SANTIAGO. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Sp.-Am. War; Cuba--Daquiri; Publ. Ind. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 982 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-155474 |
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