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Return of Santiago fleet, New York Harbor, Aug. 20, 1898 – Vintage Print

Return of Santiago fleet, New York Harbor, Aug. 20, 1898, 1898 Aug. 20. — historic photograph
Return of Santiago fleet, New York Harbor, Aug. 20, 1898, 1898 Aug. 20.. Historic photograph from the New York City 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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A window into the past: Return of Santiago fleet, New York Harbor, Aug. 20, 1898, preserved in this historic photograph. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.

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Return of Santiago fleet, New York Harbor, Aug. 20, 1898

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Look for the battleship Iowa at the left edge, which the photographer labeled on the glass negative and which sets this view apart from other harbor scenes. The picture shows the return of the fleet that had fought at Santiago de Cuba that July, when the U.S. Navy destroyed Spain's squadron off the coast of Cuba. On August 20, 1898, the ships came back to New York for a welcoming parade, and small tugboats crowded the water around them, as the subject headings note. The Detroit Publishing Company, which issued many views of American cities and events, made the negative, and it is attributed to a photographer named Hart.

Created / published1898 Aug. 20.
Medium1 negative : glass ; 11 x 14 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesAttribution to Hart based on negative D428-807. Listed in Detroit, Catalogue J (1901). Iowa" [battleship at left] on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 0806. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsIowa (Battleship) Battleships--American. Naval parades & ceremonies. Tugboats. Spanish-American War, 1898.United States--New York (State)--New York.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 775 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-77705

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