- Collection:
- Ellen Payne Odom Genealogy Library Postcard Collection
- Title:
- Monument to the Victims of the USS Maine, Havana, Cuba
- Date of Original:
- 1915/1930
- Subject:
- Maine (Battleship)
Monuments--Spanish-American War, 1898
Postcards--Cuba--Havana - Location:
- Cuba, LaHabana Province, Havana, 23.145, -82.381667
- Medium:
- postcards
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jp2
- Description:
- Postcard (sepia tone, white border, 3 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches) featuring a picture the USS Maine Monument in Cuba. (The country is identified in the hand written message on the back of the card.) The USS Maine monument in Havana, Cuba was erected in 1925 in honor of the fallen U.S. sailors. Felix Cabarrocas won the contest to design the monument. Efforts to construct the monument first began in 1918. There were delays, but it was finally completed in 1924. The monument has a large base holding two of the MAINE’s large ten inch guns, each facing outward in opposite directions from the center, each draped with what appears to be the MAINE’s anchor chain. In the center was an elaborate pedestal inscribed with the words “A Las Victimas del MAINE el Pueblo de Cuba” and “Joint Resolution: ‘The People of the Island of Cuba Are and of Right Ought to be Free and Independent’ Congress of the United States of America, April ??, 1898.” The pedestal featured statuary, the plaque with the names of the victims of the MAINE explosion and relief views of the tragedy. The pedestal was surmounted by two Corinthian columns supporting a short lintel with the word “Libertad” inscribed upon it. Atop the lintel was a large eagle with outspread wings. On October 20, 1926, a hurricane struck the island. The Corinthian columns were toppled and broken, as were the eagle and lintel. In November of the same year, funds were appropriated to repair the monument. The plaza around the monument was also expanded. On February 15, 1928, the thirtieth anniversary of the sinking of the MAINE, a ceremony was held at the monument. No descriptive text on reverse.
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/zgz_epogpc_mccls-pstcrd-294
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/zgz_epogpc_mccls-pstcrd-294#item
- IIIF manifest:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/zgz_epogpc_mccls-pstcrd-294/presentation/manifest.json
- Language:
- eng
- Extent:
- 1 postcard
- Original Collection:
- Ellen Payne Odom Genealogy Library Postcard Collection
- Holding Institution:
- Moultrie-Colquitt County Library System
- Rights:
-
