American Intervention in the Caribbean 1898-1934
This web page contains links to the content of the exhibit pages for the exhibit
'American Intervention in the Caribbean 1898-1934' by Al Kugel.
This exhibit tells the story of U.S. interventions in areas around the Caribbean Sea, starting with the outbreak of the Spanish-American War and continuing through the first quarter of the 20th Century. Energized by the destruction of USS Maine in Havana harbor, America adopted a policy of sending military forces to the area to reduce or forestall European influence and to deal with local administrations engaged in 'chronic wrongdoing.' This took our troops into Cuba three times during this period, as well as to Dominican Republic, Haiti, Nicaragua and Puerto Rico.
This exhibit was created by, and is the property of the late Al Kugel, and is being supplied by his heirs as a courtesy to the Military Postal History Society. (See the MPHS webpage) The Military Postal History Society (MPHS) is a non-profit organization for philatelists and stamp collectors interested in the collecting and studying of the postal aspects of all wars and military actions of all countries, including soldiers' campaign covers, naval mail, occupation and internment covers, patriotics, propaganda, V-mail, censorship and similar related material.
These exhibit page scans were made from black and white photocopies of the original exhibits.
The photocopy PDF files were re-scanned with the ocrmypdf program, which makes them fully text-searchable.
Those exhibits were created by Al Kugel many years ago, and are presented here for historical and research purposes. As far as the MPHS is aware, there are no color scans available of these older exhibit pages, nor for any of the illustrated postal history items. Also note that there my be pages missing from the exhibit photocopy.
This exhibit, created by the late Al Kugel, is made up of 10 frames, each frame containing 16 pages. Due to their size, each frame is available as a separate searchable PDF file. (See the PDF information page for additional help with this file format.)
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