Approx. 240 snapshot sepia silver photographs, about 9x8 cm or smaller, glued to album leaves, handwritten ink captions on the leaves. Album measures 24x19 cm (9½x7½"), blue cloth stamped in gilt. Fascinating and historically significant photographic records of troops and camps assembling and training in Florida and Georgia and perhaps elsewhere in the lead-up to the Spanish-American War. Included are scenes and camps in St. Augustine and Jacksonville including Camp Cuba Libre; views of Cuba (such as a thatched hut near Havana), target practice, tents, transports, a "receptacle for human bones" at a cemetery in Havana, African American homes and activities with the inevitable racist captions, and more.
Approx. 240 snapshot sepia silver photographs, about 9x8 cm or smaller, glued to album leaves, handwritten ink captions on the leaves. Album measures 24x19 cm (9½x7½"), blue cloth stamped in gilt. Fascinating and historically significant photographic records of troops and camps assembling and training in Florida and Georgia and perhaps elsewhere in the lead-up to the Spanish-American War. Included are scenes and camps in St. Augustine and Jacksonville including Camp Cuba Libre; views of Cuba (such as a thatched hut near Havana), target practice, tents, transports, a "receptacle for human bones" at a cemetery in Havana, African American homes and activities with the inevitable racist captions, and more.
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