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1898 ca.
Burton, James, fl. 1898
"Rough Riders in the trenches, San Juan."
View of soldiers standing in a long, narrow trench. White paint has been applied to the upper portion of the image.
GLC07002.47
"One of the machine guns in the roughrider's trenches."
Title from inscription on verso. Image shows six men in a trench, all facing away from the camera. Machine gun visible beside second man from right. Ink and white paint have been applied to lower left corner of image.
GLC07002.48
10 July 1898
"9th Infantry firing from Trenches on San Juan Hill, Sunday the 10th of July."
Rear view of approximately ten armed soldiers in a trench. Stamp of photographer on back; ink and white paint on lower left corner of image.
GLC07002.49
"Bomb proofs thrown up by the Rough Riders to protect them from the dread enfilade fire of sheel [shell?] and shrapnel from the Spanish lines."
Shows a single soldier standing on a battlefield littered with clothes, buckets, rifles, and other paraphernalia. The soldier's face is obscured. A crude shelter is visible behind him.
GLC07002.50
"A near view of the house and villa taken in the first charge of the Rough Riders at San Juan; they came from the right."
Shows one soldier with rifle and shovel in the foreground, and a house situated atop a hill. Two Rough Riders appear in the middleground. Image noticeably retouched on the bottom left.
GLC07002.51
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