Posted 7 years ago
jasonwentc…
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I found a box of dry plate photo negatives in a barn. I put them on a light board to photograph them and inverted the photos in Photoshop. I was amazed to discover they were taken in 1898 and show images from the Spanish-American War. Many document the Battle of Manila and show ships that were scuttled or sunk. The one of the two soldiers perched atop the cannon of a sunken Spanish ship is a favorite and the one with the skeletons in a mass grave is certainly incredible.
I don't know much about these and would love to know if anyone had an idea of the specifics regarding places and people.
The other images are posted in an album here: http://imgur.com/a/WhnPu
These things should be given a good home at some historic archive or a museum so that they can be seen by everyone.
Amazing! welcome to CW!
historically significant, for sure!
FABULOUS ITEMS !!!
I had a look at the other photos at your link and I am blown away !!!
http://imgur.com/a/WhnPu
https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=museum+of+american+and+spanish+war&;*
might look here for a home .. nice collection ...looks like most can be cleaned up once copied and put through Photoshop...good luck..
In one caption, you wrote "Arnaldo Dumindin points out that the tower near upper left looks like that of the Iolani Palace in Honolulu, Hawaii. I agree and this makes sense" the palace has a mansard roof on the tower so this is not correct.
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I treasured the glass plates I once found from about 1912. I restored the pictures that I got from them, which is what I do. This is a super find, congratulations.
I checked the album and the pictures are amazing. What a great find.
Arnoldo Dumindi has a very interesting site :
http://www.filipinoamericanwar.com/
WOW! Lucky you !!!