With lookouts and gunners on the battle-scarred fortress showing broad San Juan Nicaragua C. A. – Historic Photograph Print
(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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Step back in time with With lookouts and gunners on the battle-scarred fortress showing broad San Juan Nicaragua C. A., a stereograph rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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With lookouts and gunners on the battle-scarred fortress showing broad San Juan Nicaragua C. A.
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This view looks along the broad San Juan River in Nicaragua, where a fortress with lookouts and gunners stands watch over the water. The river runs from Lake Nicaragua to the Caribbean, and its strategic value drew fortifications and repeated fighting over the centuries. The stereoview dates to 1902, a period when the United States was weighing Nicaragua as a possible canal route, which kept the river and its defenses in the public eye. The card was copyrighted by photographer B.L. Singley and issued by the War Photograph and Exhibition Company, a firm that sold stereo views of distant places to American audiences.
| Created / published | 1902 |
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| Notes | H21154 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 12832. Copyright by B.L. Singley. · War Photograph and Exhibition Company publisher. |
| Subjects | Forts & fortifications--Nicaragua--San Juan--1900-1910. Rivers--Nicaragua--San Juan River--1900-1910. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,608 × 2,193 px · prints to 15 × 7 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-STV-271330 |
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