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Cuba. Soldiers graves at San Juan Hill – Antique Wall Art

Cuba. Soldiers graves at San Juan Hill, Niagara Falls, N.Y. : M.H. Zahner, publisher, c1899. — historic photograph
Cuba. Soldiers graves at San Juan Hill, Niagara Falls, N.Y. : M.H. Zahner, publisher, c1899.. Historic photograph from the Latin America collection.

(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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Cuba. Soldiers graves at San Juan Hill comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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American soldiers' graves on the slopes near San Juan Hill, outside Santiago de Cuba, are the focus of this stereograph, a sober reminder of what the fighting cost. United States forces attacked Spanish positions there on July 1, 1898, during the Spanish-American War, and the hill became one of that conflict's best-known engagements. The card was published around 1899 by M.H. Zahner of Niagara Falls, New York, at a time when stereoscopic views let Americans see distant places through a viewer that gave the scene depth. Its paired images show the burial ground about a year after the battle.

Created / publishedNiagara Falls, N.Y. : M.H. Zahner, publisher, c1899.
Medium1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph.
GenrePhotographic prints 1890-1900.Stereographs 1890-1900.
Notes26106 U.S. Copyright Office.
SubjectsSan Juan Hill, Battle of, Cuba, 1898--Cemeteries--American--Cuba.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 731 px · prints to 5 × 2 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-164422

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