2-751-078 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'The Last Photograph of Sergeant "Willie" Tiffany', Spanish-American War, 12 June 1898, (1899). '...Tiffany, Going Abroad the "Matteawan", Sunday Afternoon, June 12th'. Left-right: (unknown man), William Tiffany, Henry Bull and Craig Wadsworth boarding a troopship at Port Tampa, Florida, USA. Tiffany (1863-1898) survived the Battle of San Juan Heights unhurt and was given a battlefield commission as a second lieutenant, but was among several Rough Riders who died of yellow fever or malaria. From "The Little I saw of Cuba" by Burr McIntosh, with photographs by the author. (In 1898, American actor and journalist William Burr McIntosh went to Cuba to cover the Spanish-American War for "Leslie's Weekly" as a reporter and photographer). [F. Tennyson Neely, London & New York, 1899]