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A Century of Photos
FEBRUARY 1998
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They're fun. They're quirky. And they're full of surprises. Now more than a century of adventures and photographic memories from the magazine's archive are just a click away.
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FEBRUARY 1998
| Photograph by B.L. Tingley/Keystone View Company |
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The Maine Event
The sinking of the U.S.S. Maine in Havana harbor was the big news in 1898. Because newspapers of the day rarely printed photographs, many Americans sought copies of stereographs—dual images mounted on cardboard that slid into a stereoscope for a three dimensional effect. Stereographs provided some of the first widely circulated pictures of important events. Viewers must have felt they were on deck as this diver descended on the wreckage of the Maine; this scene was not published in our magazine.
The GEOGRAPHIC, too, remembered the Maine—and its surviving commander, Capt. Charles D. Sigsbee. An expert of ocean mapping and a longtime Society member, "Captain Sigsbee himself, by the admirable self-restraint and judicial temper which he displayed in the most trying of all conceivable circumstances, has won 'golden opinions from all sorts of people,'" said our May 1898 tribute—part of an issue devoted to Cuba. The articles examined the island's geology trade, indigenous birdlife, and more: "The women," noted contributor Robert T. Hill, "have the highest type of beauty."
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