Cubans in their trenches - awaiting the Spaniards - Pinar del Rio, Cuba – Antique 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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Cubans in their trenches - awaiting the Spaniards - Pinar del Rio, Cuba. 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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Cuban fighters dug these trenches in Pinar del Rio, the westernmost province of Cuba, and this stereograph shows them waiting for Spanish troops to approach. The card was issued by Strohmeyer & Wyman, a New York publisher of stereoscopic views whose paired images were meant to be seen through a stereoscope at home. It dates to about 1899, just after the 1898 war between the United States and Spain that ended Spanish rule in Cuba, so its subject reflects a conflict still fresh in American minds. The caption details come from an old card and have not been independently verified, so the scene is best read as a period record rather than a precise account of one moment.
| Created / published | c1899. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph. |
| Subjects | Stereo copyrighted by Strohmeyer & Wyman. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: U.S. Hist.--War w/ Spain--1898; For. Rel.--Cuban-Amer. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 786 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-139937 |
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