"WRECK OF CERVERA'S FLEET", 1898
lantern slide
PHOTOGRAPHSCirca July 03, 1898
3.25 x 4.00 x 0
Lantern slide; black and white view of weapons; printed note reads "18019 SANTIAGO, CUBA. 'WRECK OF CERVERA'S FLE[ET?]/ After Turret and fallen top of 'Vizcaya.'"; ink label reads "59". May have been photographed after the Battle of Santiago, Spanish-American War, July 3, 1898. See article in the "Log of Mystic Seaport", Summer 1998, Vol. 50, No. 1, p. 20.
1997.86.40