| Photos of Cuba: Spanish-American War Era (1898) |
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| These antique photographic images are of Cuba, Cubans, the Cuban landscape, and the U.S. military occupation of the country as a result of the Spanish-American War of 1898. The images come from the massive 1899 two-volume set Our Islands and Their People. The photographs are simply stunning and incredibly rare. |
| A squad of Havana volunteers, circa 1898. |
Click to enlarge.| SURRENDER TREE: The photograph represents the tree as it is at the present time, surrounded, by order of General Wood, with a triple wire fence or trocha, as a protection against relic hunters, whose depredations are visible on the roots and lower portions of the trunk. Surrender Tree is located about four miles out from Santiago, on the estate of Senor Morett, a wealthy cattle raiser, who lives at Ponce, Puerto Rico. The bodies of a number of American soldiers, buried under and near this tree, were removed to the United States after the close of the war. |
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Click to enlarge.| PLAZA AND COLUMBUS MONUMENT, CARDENAS, CUBA: This monument was erected in 1862, by order of Isabella II of Spain, and presented to the City of Cardenas. It is one of the many costly works of art that Spain has left in the Islands as a compensation for her misrule and extortion. The stately date palms on either side form an appropriate frame for a strikingly beautiful picture. |
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