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Cuban volunteers in the barracks

from Florida Memory

• Pixel Wrangler said:

  Gilson Willets [photographer] (1869 - c.1922) was a pioneering photojournalist, war correspondent, and globe-trotting reporter for 25 years. He was also a prolific novelist.[1] He took many photographs of people, military camps, domestic life, home interiors, etc. in Cuba, Manila, and Puerto Rico at the time of the Spanish American War.[2]

Cooking for the 9th U.S. Cavalry

from Florida Memory

• carlacarlacarlacarla said:

  I'm an Admin for a group called The Mess Tent, and we'd love to have this historic photo added to the group!