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US TxAM-C 166
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Title
Spanish-American War and Boxer Rebellion Scrapbooks
Date(s)
- 1898-1900 (Creation)
Extent
12 boxes
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Scope and content
This collection is comprised of 12 scrapbooks (compiler unknown) that contain magazine and newspaper clippings, maps, and other printed ephemera chronicling the Spanish-American War (April-August 1898) in Cuba, and the Boxer Rebellion (1899-1901) in China. No commentary or other original text has been provided by the compiler. The volumes differ slightly, but all are bound in either dark green or dark brown cloth, with maroon quarter calf. Most of the spine covers are damaged or missing. The scrapbooks measure from 20-25 cm. high and from 24-29 cm. wide.
- Volume 1, Spanish-American War Scrapbook, circa April - August 1898
- A copy of the war-revenue law of 1898, with index [approved June 13, 1898] is pasted onto the inside back cover
- Volume 2, Spanish-American War Scrapbook, circa April - August 1898
- Volume 3, Spanish-American War Scrapbook, circa April - August 1898
- Volume 4, Spanish-American War Scrapbook, circa April - August 1898
- Volume 5, Spanish-American War Scrapbook, circa April - August 1898
- Volume 6, Spanish-American War Scrapbook, circa April - August 1898
- Volume 7, Spanish-American War Scrapbook, circa April - August 1898
- Volume 8, Spanish-American War Scrapbook, circa April - August 1898
- Volume 9, Spanish-American War Scrapbook, circa April - August 1898
- Volume 10, Spanish-American War Scrapbook, circa April - August 1898
- Volume 11, Spanish-American War Scrapbook, circa April - August 1898
- Volume 12, Boxer Rebellion Scrapbook, circa June 29 - July 15, 1900 (A few loose clippings are included inside the front cover)
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This collection is arranged chronologically.
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Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.
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- English
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