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Pain’s military spectacle realistic battle scenes as witnessed in their monster exhibit : the battle of San Juan

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Title: Pain’s military spectacle realistic battle scenes as witnessed in their monster exhibit : the battle of San Juan
Creator: Goes Lithographic Co., printer
Francis & Valentine, printer
Contributor: Last, Jay T., donor
Date Created and/or Issued: 1895
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1900
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1905
Contributing Institution: Huntington Library
Collection: Jay T. Last Collection of Graphic Arts and Social History
Rights Information: For information on use of Digital Library materials, please see Library Rights and Permissions: https://www.huntington.org/library-rights-permissions
Description: 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.)
Identifier: priJLC_ENT_000237
386181
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16003coll4/id/2411
Language: English
Subject: 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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