San Juan Hill Charged by Americans, (Cuba, Spanish-American War, 1898), Beautiful, Resonant Antique Photograph emu Cover rough around the edges

Cover rough around the edges as evident

and as a symbolic one

feeling all of a piece with it

with the placement of the dots

but he's such a sweet thing I thought him well worth the effort

San Juan Hill Charged by Americans, (Cuba, Spanish-American War, 1898), Beautiful, Resonant Antique Photograph emu Cover rough around the edgesI 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,