San Juan Hill Charged by Americans, (Cuba, Spanish-American War, 1898), Beautiful, Resonant Antique Photograph Johanne Gerber Mortise and tenon construction throughout

Mortise and tenon construction throughout

) I believe it is a carte-de-visite albumen photo

This striking geometric

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San Juan Hill Charged by Americans, (Cuba, Spanish-American War, 1898), Beautiful, Resonant Antique Photograph Johanne Gerber Mortise and tenon construction throughoutI find this quite a beautiful photograph and also quite a resonant one. At the bottom left corner is handwritten in ink: "San Juan Hill charged by Americans." And indeed, here is San Juan Hill in Cuba, documented I'd guess just a few years after the battle that took place there: a decisive, bloody engagement in the Spanish American War where U. S. forces, including the famous Rough Riders led by Theodore Roosevelt, stormed the San Juan Heights,