Surrounded and escorted by a variety of smaller craft, the American Armored Cruiser, USS New York (CA-2) enters waters of New York City to participate in the Spanish American War Victory Fleet Review. She fires several guns in salute as she makes way. (Edison Company, 1898)
Army mules carry ammunition for American forces, along the Santiago trail, in Cuba during the Spanish-American War. Some of the men seen may be civilian muleskinners hired by the army to help handle the pack mules. (Edison Company, 1898)
A warship is launched, as men watch from small boats nearby. As the warship comes down the ways, it sets up a wave that jostles the small boats. Men from one boat jump into the river, fully clothed. (Edison Company, 1898)
14th Street and Broadway in New York City, New York. A wagon pulled by horses along the streets. A sign on the top of a shop reads 'The Crawford Shoe'. Beer wagons move along the streets. A man on the sidewalk sprinkles items (coins?) from a rolled up paper, as boys stoop to pick them up. Pedestrians on the sidewalk and street cars in the street. (Edison Company, 1898)
Spanish-American War. United States troops including Ninth Cavalry Regiment African American soldiers in Cuba. (Officers and soldiers of the Ninth Cavalry were African Americans, and sometimes referred to as "Buffalo Soldiers".) 9th Cavalry troops debark from a transport ship. Other soldiers wait near the transport as they debark. 9th Cavalry troops walk along wharves near the water. (Edison Company, 1898)
A black sow and her sucklings in a baarnyard in the United States. The white sucklings gather near their mother. The sow is busy eating. The suckings stay in a cluster behind her. (Edison Company, 1898).