Photographs in the Spanish -American War Collection

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SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR COLLECTION (RG1100), 1898-1998

SERIES III: PHOTOGRAPHS, 1898, 1958, 1953

Historical Note

Scope and Content Note

Subject Files

2nd Massachusetts Regiment

Memorabilia

This series contains photographs depicting the activities of the Second Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteers and the Seventy-first Regiment of New York Volunteers while they were encamped in Lakeland awaiting orders to proceed to Cuba. Some of the photographs are reproduced from published sources, while others were donated to the Special Collections unit by descendants of soldiers assigned to the two units.

Included are photographs depicting recreational activities, parade drills, camp streets, camp kitchens, camp hospitals, soldiers at leisure, general camp views, and soldiers departing for Cuba and returning home after service in Cuba.

The photographs are arranged alphabetically by subject. The photo above shows soldiers of the 2nd Massachusetts in camp and checking the newspapers for news of the war.

BOX	FOLDER	FOLDER TITLE	DATES
4	1	Boxing Match at Camp Morton in Lakeland	1898
	2	Camp on Lake Morton	1898
	3	Company D, Second Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteers	1898
	4	Company F, Seventy-first Regiment, New York Volunteers	1898
	5	Company H Street, Camp Morton	1898
	6	Company Kitchen	1898
	7	Company Street, Lakeland	1898
	8	Evening Parade of the Second Regiment	1898
	9	Guard Mount of the Second Regiment	1898
	10	Historic Marker at the Location of Camp Massachusetts	1948
	11	Markert, Herman C.: Arriving Home from Cuba	1898
	12	Markert, Herman C and Anna: 50th Anniversary	1953
	13	The Morgan Pump, Lakeland	1898
	14	Nelson A. Miles Camp 36 of United Spanish War Veterans of Massachusetts: Past Commanders	n.d.
	15	Pierce, Col. Frederick	n.d.
	16	'Reading the News from Manila'	1898
	17	Regimental Hospital	1898
	18	Second Battalion, New York Volunteers	1898
	19	Second Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteers	1898
	20	Second Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteers: Wellington Rifles, Company H. See Oversize	n.d.
	21	Sixty-ninth Infantry, New York Volunteers: Camp on Lake Hunter	1898
	22	Soldiers at the Corner of Main Street and Kentucky Avenue, Lakeland	1898
	23	Miscellaneous	n.d.