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Title: Dinner time at Battery "D"
Date Created and/or Issued: [1899?]
Contributing Institution: California State Library
Collection: California History Section Picture Catalog
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Description: Plates in: Spanish American War and Philippine insurrection : photographic album of California Heavy Artillery, with scenes in camp and views of the Philippines, v. 2, pg. 13, no. 72.
Two-story tiled-roofed building, balcony on second floor with sliding doors. Soldiers assembled in courtyard. Various cooking pots and equipment around courtyard, one man cooking over fire enclosed in metal box.
2009-2042.
In May of 1898, California created the First Battalion of California Heavy Artillery, United States Volunteers in answer to President's call for troops. Consisted of four batteries, A through D, batteries A and D were assigned to Philippine Islands Expeditionary Forces, remaining batteries served in U.S. Album documents experiences of Frank Freeman Atkinson, Sergeant in Battery D.
Mrs. Frank Atkinson;
Published in: Our islands and their people as seen with camera and pencil. St. Louis : N.D. Thompson Pub. Co., c1899. Vol. 2, pg. [509]. Captioned: Mess of the California Heavy Artillery, Battery D. This photograph shows the quarters of the battery while encamped at Cavite. It is one of the Government war photographs furnished for special reproduction in this work.
Type: image
Format: Photographs.
Nonprojected graphic
Extent: 1 photographic print ; 5 3/8 x 8 1/4 in.
Identifier: (C)001409477CSL01-Aleph
Language: English
Subject: United States. Army. California Heavy Artillery Regiment
Spanish-American War, 1898--Photographs
Soldiers--American--Philippines--Cavite
Buildings--Philippines--Cavite
Pots & pans
Cauldrons
Cavite (Philippines)--Photographs
Photographic prints
Photograph albums
Place: Philippines
Cavite
Cavite (Philippines)

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