Title:
Departure of the California First Regiment U.S.V. on the steamship "City of Peking" for the Philippine Islands
Creator/Contributor:
Britton & Rey (active 1851-1902), lithographer (lithographer)
Date:
c1898
Identifier:
BANC PIC 1963.002:0341--D
Format:
print on paper: photomechanical
54.4 x 65.5 cm.
Content/Description:
Port-side view of four-masted iron ship "City of Peking" with two smokestacks in center; US flags fly from masts; Decks crowded
with soldiers of First Regiment California US Volunteer infantry en route to campaign in the Philippine Islands.
Notes/Inscriptions:
Printed title (LC). Printed (LL): Lith. Britton & Rey, S[an] F[rancisco]; (LC, below title): May 25, 1898/the first US troops
that left their country to do battle on a foreign soil; (LR): Copyrighted by Britton & Rey, 1898. View based on photographic
print.
Subjects:
Military personnel;
Vessels
Genre/Format:
Marines (Visual works);
Photomechanical prints