Item 2008.001.050 - Spanish-American war album

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Spanish-American war album

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2008.001.050

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  • c. 1898-1950 (Creation)

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1 album (49 pages, 54 b&w photographs, 1 plant, 1 clipping): 28.5L x 39W x 2.5H

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(1943-)

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Black cover album with grey pages. Photographs glued in. Bound together by screwposts. Some photographs are torn, cut, cracked; many are loose or coming loose. Many pages are left blank; approximately ten to fifteen pages from the back of the album, there is a newspaper clipping of Princess Elizabeth holding baby Princess Anne (b. 1950).

Album belonged to a nurse from Alexander Ontario who served in Cuba during the Spanish-American War. Some are amateur travel photographs and some appear to be taken with the purpose of being sold as a souvenir, featuring text.
Included are images of Havana, the coast, harbour, buildings, monuments, etc; the Red Cross Building, a U.S. hospital, a man dead on a stretcher, bullfights, and locals. Possibly a photo of Theodore Roosevent delivering the U.S. Soldiers.
Also included are an invitation, a newspaper cutout of an illustration of The Cane-bottom'd Char by W.M. Thackeray and an unidentified pressed plant leaf.

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Photographs in bad condition, some are torn, and are very brittle, cracked, creased, folded. Yellowed and faded. Album is in good condition. Pages yellowing. Some loose photographs.

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