Image of a landscape view of a military charge by United States soldiers across a field towards a Spanish fort in the distance with bombs exploding and soldiers lying dead and wounded in the field; date sheet for September 1-15, [1900], shows in San Francisco, California, attached; the poster advertises the reenactment produced by Henry J. Pain of the 1898 Battle of San Juan Hill in Cuba. Date supplied by cataloger based on month and day in date sheet and related newspaper advertisements for the event in 1900. "Goes / Litho. Co. / Chicago"--text, bottom left. "Realistic Battle Scenes / As Witnessed in / Their Monster Exhibit"--text, top margin. "Folsom and / 16th St. / San Francisco."--text, date sheet, bottom left. "Commencing / Saturday / Sept. 1 / and Continuing / Nightly... Until Sept. 15 ... Seats Advance at Sherman, Clay & Co's"--text, date sheet, bottom centered. "Concluding Nightly with / Pain's $1,000 / Display Fireworks / Chicago World's Fair / and Paris Exposition"--text, date sheet, bottom right. "Francis-Valentine Co. / Printers and Engravers"--text, date sheet, bottom centered.
Type
image
Extent
1 lithograph : color printed ; overall 80.33 x 101.28 cm (31 5/8 x 39 7/8 in.)
San Juan Hill, Battle of, Cuba, 1898--Pictorial works Spanish-American War, 1898--Pictorial works Battlefields--Pictorial works Historical dramas Historical reenactments--United States--Pictorial works Landscapes--Cuba--Pictorial works Soldiers--Pictorial works Theatrical productions Lithographs--Color--1900-1925. (gmgpc) Theatrical posters--American. (gmgpc)
Place
San Francisco (Calif.) Cuba
Source
Jay T. Last Collection Entertainment Large Size Music and Theater The Jay T. Last Collection of Graphic Arts and Social History, Huntington Digital Library
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