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Title: Troops for Manila aboard City of Peking
Contributor: [none noted]
Date Created and/or Issued: 1898
Publication Information: C.H. Graves
The Universal Photo Art Co
Los Angeles: Occidental College Library, 2008
Contributing Institution: Occidental College Library
Collection: Occidental College Stereographs
Rights Information: Please contact the contributing institution for more information regarding the copyright status of this object.
Description: This is a wide shot of hundreds of U.S. soldiers filling the deck, lifeboats an some of the masts of a large ship on their way to Manila.
There are more stereographs of the Spanish-American war than any other war, and this image demonstrates the specificity with which photographers covered the war. Images like this one informed civilian audiences about what was going on in all aspects of the war.
Card #32
Type: image
Format: [none noted]
image/jpeg
Extent: 18 x 9 cm
Identifier: [none noted]
sckla0049
http://callimachus.org/cdm/ref/collection/p131301coll1/id/56
Language: English
Subject: Philippines--History--Philippine American War, 1899-1902
Spanish-American War, 1898--Campaigns--Philippines
Troop movements
Ships
Decks (Ships)
Manila, Philippine Insurrection, Spanish-American War, U.S. Troops, Ship, Deck View
Place: Philadelphia, U.S.A.
Source: Occidental College Library.
Relation: Special Collections. Charles D. Klamm Stereograph Collection. (sckla)

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