Call Number:

PH-01367

Collection Name:

Henry Roberts Photography Collection

Creator:

No. of Items:

72 items

Span Dates:

1898

Description:

The collection consists of seventy-two prints, including gelatin silver printing-out paper prints and cyanotypes (973:0003:0030-0031, 0038, 0040) by Henry Roberts. The images document various aspects of the Spanish-American War of 1898 in and around Cuba including: ships at sea; General Garcia in Cuba; pictures of sailors, lieutenants, captains and generals; Red Cross workers; and British press correspondents.

973:0003:0001 -- Howard Thompson of Associated Press;
973:0003:0002 -- Captain McHugh of the London Telegraph;
973:0003:0003 -- E. Knight, correspondent of London Times;
973:0003:0004 -- J. Lynch of the London Chronicle;
973:0003:0005 -- [Man standing in front of drug store];
973:0003:0006 -- [Man];
973:0003:0007 -- [Two men standing by boats];
973:0003:0008 -- [Man standing by bike];
973:0003:0009 -- [Man holding umbrella];
973:0003:0010 -- Captain Allen Usa (?);
973:0003:0011 -- German Naval Altache;
973:0003:0012 -- [Man in uniform];
973:0003:0013 -- [Man in uniform];
973:0003:0014 -- [Man in uniform];
973:0003:0015 -- [Man in uniform];
973:0003:0016 -- [Man in uniform];
973:0003:0017 -- [Man];
973:0003:0018 -- [Man in uniform];
973:0003:0019 -- [Three Red Cross nurses];
973:0003:0020 -- [Red Cross nurse];
973:0003:0021 -- [Two women on porch];
973:0003:0022 -- [Two women on porch];
973:0003:0023 -- [Young boy holding puppy];
973:0003:0024 -- [Man and dog on porch];
973:0003:0025 -- Lieutenant Andrew S. Rowan;
973:0003:0026 -- General Garcia in front of his hut;
973:0003:0027 -- General Garcia and officers awaiting the arrival of photographer and his men on shore;
973:0003:0028 -- General Garcia and others at Wheelerýs headquarters on July 14;
973:0003:0029 -- Garciaýs Army marching down to go on board ships;
973:0003:0030 -- [Men standing on dock];
973:0003:0031 -- [View from boat of a building on shore];
973:0003:0032 -- [Naval ship];
973:0003:0033 -- Winslow naval ship;
973:0003:0034 -- Winslow naval ship and parrot who gave commands during fight;
973:0003:0035 -- Tug boat Hudson with bodies of men who were killed on Winslow as it came into Harbor at Key West;
973:0003:0036 -- Lieutenant Scott telling of the fight;
973:0003:0037 -- [Naval ship];
973:0003:0038 -- [Naval ship];
973:0003:0039 -- The ill-fated Gussie (naval ship) on her return from Cuba;
973:0003:0040 -- Wash Day on the Texas (naval ship);
973:0003:0041 -- Wash Day on the Texas;
973:0003:0042 -- Uniformed men marching down street in Key West for the burial of the Winslow sailors;
973:0003:0043 -- Burial of Winslow Sailors at Key West Cemetary;
973:0003:0044 -- [Sailboat and naval ships in sea];
973:0003:0045 -- Men diving from ship in harbor;
973:0003:0046 -- Men diving from ship in harbor;
973:0003:0047 -- Landing at Daiquiri;
973:0003:0048 -- [Naval ships in harbor];
973:0003:0049 -- [View from boat of land];
973:0003:0050 -- General Miles Staff with General Wilson lunching in courtyard of little French Hotel in Ponce;
973:0003:0051 -- [Lunching at French Hotel in Ponce];
973:0003:0052 -- General Miles looking at dynamite with others in attendance;
973:0003:0053 -- General Shafter watching the loading of (?) onto a train, June 7;
973:0003:0054 -- Two Red Cross nurses and 2 men;
973:0003:0055 -- Miss Barton feeding starving miners;
973:0003:0056 -- Miss Wheeler taking a picture of the loading of her fatherýs ship;
973:0003:0057 -- Miss Wheeler watching the loading of her fatherýs ship;
973:0003:0058 -- [Men walking towards burning building];
973:0003:0059 -- [Group of men and women];
973:0003:0060 -- General Shafter at General Wheelerýs headquarters, Lieutenant Meilly ( Wheelerýs aide) is also present;
973:0003:0061 -- [Man on horseback];
973:0003:0062 -- [Man on horseback];
973:0003:0063 -- [Man at camp];
973:0003:0064 -- [Wagons crossing creek];
973:0003:0065 -- A typical Cuban Army hut;
973:0003:0066 -- San Juan blockhouse, July 4;
973:0003:0067 -- On duty in the trenches, July 10;
973:0003:0068 -- The flag in the trenches which blew defiance to the Spaniards;
973:0003:0069 -- Fire house at Ponce;
973:0003:0070 -- Cathedral at Ponce;
973:0003:0071 -- Bandstand in the Plaza at Ponce, occupied by Provost (?) guard;
973:0003:0072 -- [House].

Accession No(s):

973:0003:0001-0072; Gift, 1973.

Location(s):

Q-R Box, Small (973:0003:0001-0072)
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