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Daughter's friend came back from the Phillipines and showed her what money looked like there
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2024/04/01
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U.S. Marines were present at the Hawaiian annexation ceremonies on August 12, 1898.
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2024/02/07
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The 14th Ohio National Guard march through downtown along East Broad Street on the way to Camp Bushnell. The troops fought in the Spanish American war.
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2023/09/06
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American soldiers of the 339th Infantry during the Polar Bear Expedition (1919).
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2023/08/30
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Landing force from the USS Olympia (C-6) put ashore at Archangel on 3 August 1918 as part of the A.E.F. during the Intervention in Russia.
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2023/07/26
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USS Olympia, Cruiser No. 6, shows off her new bow ornament in Boston late in 1901
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2023/07/25
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After the overthrow of the Hawaiian monarchy in January 1893, the United States was considering annexing Hawaii. In the late 1890s, American political cartoons illustrated manifest destiny, or America's geopolitical and colonial expansion.
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2023/07/24
17:15 UTC
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U.S. Navy protected cruiser, USS Raleigh (C 8), Spanish-Gun Captured during the Battle of Manila Bay. Detroit Publishing Company, 1890-1912. Courtesy of the Library of Congress. (2016/03/25).
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2023/07/22
16:33 UTC
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Admiral Dewey at the Battle of Manila" Contemporary colored print depicting Commodore George Dewey on the bridge of his flagship, USS Olympia, during the Battle of Manila Bay, 1 May 1898. Courtesy of the Naval Historical Foundation, Collection of C.J. Dutreaux.
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2023/07/21
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On August 13th 1898, the Utah Artillery supported Greene's brigade as it attacked towards the old city of Manila.The Utah batteries fired and re-deployed several times providing close and accurate support for the attacks.
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2023/07/20
18:37 UTC
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Three samples of the uniform worn by African-American cavalry during the US-Spanish War of 1898.
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2023/07/17
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Uncle Sam gets first dibs on the "oyster sandwiches," or Hawaii, before Japan and other countries. This cartoon appeared when the United States was deciding whether to annex Hawaii as an American territory.
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2023/07/15
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1898 US Political Cartoon. US President William McKinley is shown holding the Philippines, depicted as a savage child, as the world looks on. The implied options for McKinley are to keep the Philippines, or give it back to Spain, which the cartoon compares to throwing a child off a cliff.
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2023/07/13
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Internal Revenue Stamps of the Philippine Island 1930-1937 printed by the US Bureau of Printing and Engraving for used in the Philippines under US Administration.
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2023/07/12
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US Welcome for 2nd Philippine delegation for Independence from the US 1921: Photo shows left to right: Resident Commissioner Jaime de Veyra, Senate President Manuel L. Quezon, Possibly Governor-General Leonard Wood, Speaker Sergio Osmeña and Resident Commissioner Isauro Gabaldón. 1921
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2023/07/11
16:27 UTC
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American Samoa travelogue - 1931
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2023/05/28
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Today Hawaii is a fully incorporated US territory, but it was acquired in a pretty darn imperialistic way.
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2023/04/15
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Igorot people imported from the Philippines for display at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition - 1904
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2023/04/13
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American soldiers in the Philippine-American War - c. 1899
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2023/03/22
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Men of the 28th Bomb Squadron pose with a B-10B at Nichols Field, the Philippines, 1938
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2023/02/28
14:36 UTC
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Wounded Spanish prisoners at Brigade hospital on San Juan Hill, Cuba, July 3, 1898., 07-03-1898 - NARA - 533438.
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2023/02/08
16:51 UTC
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American poses with dead Haitians killed by U.S. Marine machine gun fire on October 11, 1915 during the United States occupation of Haiti
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2023/02/01
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Marines of the Asiatic Squadron with the captured Sujagi during the 1871 Korean Expedition. The flag was not returned to Korea until 2007
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2023/01/26
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This man, who was of one of the Negrito ethnicities, traveled from the Philippines to appear at the St. Louis World's Fair in 1903. He is shown here next to an "ordinary built American" to demonstrate relative size. Unknown author
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2023/01/24
17:24 UTC
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American soldiers battling against the Moro rebels (1902). The Moro Rebellion (1899–1913) was an armed conflict between the Moro people and the United States military during the Philippine–American War.
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2023/01/20
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American Soldiers Posing in a Street in Saltillo, Mexico, During the Mexican-American War (1847)
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2023/01/20
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American troops marching in Puerto Rico during the Spanish-American War. The US invaded the island on July 25, 1898 despite only nominal Spanish sovereignty.
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2023/01/19
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The Commonwealth of the Philippines is established under American suzerainty - 1935
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2023/01/06
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'As the old Spanish throne topples, up goes the Cuban flag of independence', American cartoon showing the Spanish throne tumbling as Cuba raises its flag of independence across the sea - 1898
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2022/12/31
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