Packing Ammunition on Mules, Cuba

0597(mu)

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Packing Ammunition on Mules, Cuba

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 hundreds upon hundreds of ammunition cases.Soldier boys in the foreground are packing the boxes on the patient army mules. An officer stands by bossing the job. Two boxes are tied on each mule.

The Phonoscope 10/1898.

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1 Edison n.c. (MU 597). William Paley.  
2 William PaleyJames H. White.  
3 22-26/06/1898. © Thomas A. Edison, 05/08/1898 [50] ft
4 Cuba. Daiquiri.  

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