3-017-940 - Heritage Art/Heritage Images

Cuban officers on the Cuba, 1913. Shows officers of the ship Cuba, who were in New York City to take part in the unveiling ceremonies for the memorial to the battleship Maine, which had exploded in the harbor of Havana, Cuba, during the Spanish-American War of 1898. In 1913, the monument was placed at the Columbus Circle and 59th Street entrance to Central Park in New York City.