William C. Paley Movies

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"The first U.S. Troops to land, June 22, 1898. Transports in the distance. Soldiers clamber up from boats onto the long railroad pier." - from the...

A method soldier boys have for amusing themselves in their leisure moments. New comrades are frequently initiated by the old-fashioned sport of...

Taken at Washington, in front of the Navy Department, and shows Secretary of the Navy Long and Captain Sigsbee of the ill-fated 'Maine' coming down...

A very lifelike picture of the famous New York politician and Tammany Hall boss. This picture was taken on Sunday morning [sic] as he was leaving the...

Look before you leap, at hasty conclusions. Nell is a sweet girl and Bob is a good fellow; Nell is a typical Texas girl and Bob is a comparative...

Hurrah here they come! Hot, dusty, grim and determined! Real soldiers, every inch of them! No gold lace and chalked belts and shoulder straps...

"Imagine forty or fifty soldier boys each with a pail of water on the ground before him, sousing and spattering and scrubbing away for dear life..."

"A great pack train approaches rapidly, following the gray bell-mule. Cowboys dash to and fro, keeping them bunched. Clouds of dust arise as they...

Taken at the Cuban Volunteer Camp at West Tampa, Fla. Men are falling into line, two abreast, every man with his tin cup and dish. Command is given...

Taken in Havana Harbor from a moving launch, and shows the wreck of the 'Maine' surrounded by wrecking boats and other vessels...

Here is a freight train of thirty cars loaded with baggage and ambulance supplies for the 9th U.S. Cavalry.

We see a dozen or so Cubans walking a plank onto a ship.

Views of the burial in Key West of victims of the USS Maine.

American troops prepare for the invasion of Cuba.

"Shows 34th Michigan boys hard at work with pick and shovel, preparing the way for passage of seige guns."

"The commander of the 5th Army Corps rides forward with a party of officers. He wears a white helmet, a broad expanse of shirt bosom and a general...

Shows the despatch boat of the 'New York Journal' steaming through the water, having aboard the war correspondents.

A group of escaped reconcentrados, saved from the fate of starvation imposed by the Butcher, Weyler.

Dotting the horizon on the right of the picture is the great fleet of transports, while scattered all along the beach and piled high to the left are...