{"product_id":"1898-peace-protocol-ends-spanish-war-camp-wikoff-klondike-aug-27","title":"1898 Peace Protocol Ends Spanish War, Camp Wikoff, Klondike — Aug 27","description":"🗞️ HARPER'S WEEKLY · August 27, 1898\nComplete Issue · New York\n\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n\nA historically exceptional issue published fifteen days after the Spanish-American War officially ended — the peace protocol signing illustrated in full, Camp Wikoff on Long Island where returning soldiers were quarantined, the Klondike Gold Rush in a double-page centerfold, the Philippines, and Uncle Sam teaching his new territories self-government. A primary document of America's transformation into a world power, in the very week the guns fell silent.\n\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n✍️ THE PEACE PROTOCOL — THE WAR ENDS\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n\n🕊️ FULL PAGE — \"ENDING THE WAR — M. JULES CAMBON, THE FRENCH AMBASSADOR, SIGNING THE PEACE PROTOCOL ON BEHALF OF SPAIN\"\nA full-page illustration of the moment the Spanish-American War officially ended — French Ambassador Jules Cambon signing the Peace Protocol at the White House Cabinet Room on August 12, 1898, at 4:23 p.m., with Secretary of State William R. Day signing for the United States and President McKinley looking on. Because Spain had no ambassador in Washington, France's Jules Cambon acted as intermediary — his signature formally committed Spain to relinquishing Cuba, ceding Puerto Rico and Guam to the United States, and allowing America to occupy Manila pending the final Treaty of Paris. The protocol was the document that ended 113 days of war and launched America as a global imperial power. Théobald Chartran's famous painting of this exact scene now hangs in the White House collection. This Harper's Weekly illustration, published fifteen days after the signing, is a contemporary primary document of the moment history turned — the birth of the American century.\n\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n🏥 CAMP WIKOFF — RETURNING SOLDIERS\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n\n🏕️ TWO FULL PAGES — \"SCENES AT CAMP WIKOFF, MONTAUK POINT, LONG ISLAND\"\nTwo full pages of illustrations of Camp Wikoff — the quarantine and demobilization camp established at Montauk Point, Long Island, to receive soldiers returning from Cuba. As many as 25,000 troops passed through Wikoff, many of them suffering from yellow fever, malaria, typhoid, and dysentery contracted during the Cuban campaign. The camp became a national scandal as conditions deteriorated and men died in inadequate facilities, spurring congressional investigations and reforms of the Army's medical corps. Theodore Roosevelt famously wrote a letter demanding his Rough Riders be evacuated from Cuba before they all died of disease — a letter that added to his national fame. These illustrations capture the human cost of the \"splendid little war\" behind the victory parades.\n\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n🥇 THE KLONDIKE GOLD RUSH\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n\n⛏️ DOUBLE-PAGE CENTERFOLD + ADDITIONAL PAGES — \"SCENES ON THE ROAD TO THE KLONDIKE\" AND \"NEWS FROM THE KLONDIKE\"\nA double-page centerfold and several additional pages of Klondike Gold Rush coverage — the great Canadian gold rush that had erupted in July 1897 when the steamship Portland arrived in Seattle with a \"ton of solid gold,\" triggering one of the largest gold rushes in history. In the summer of 1898, tens of thousands of prospectors were still streaming northward through the Chilkoot and White passes toward the Yukon, and Harper's Weekly's extensive Klondike coverage reflects the national obsession. A significant and very collectible piece of Klondike Gold Rush history.\n\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n🖼️ INSIDE THE ISSUE\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n\n🌏 FULL FRONT PAGE — \"UNCLE SAM'S NEW CLASS IN THE ART OF SELF-GOVERNMENT\"\nA full front-page political illustration of Uncle Sam teaching his new territories — Cuba, Puerto Rico, Hawaii, and the Philippines — the art of self-government. A significant and pointed piece of American imperial political art, capturing the paternalistic ideology that justified American expansion at the turn of the century.\n\n🇵🇭 FULL PAGE — \"WITH OUR TROOPS IN THE PHILIPPINES\"\nA full page of illustrations of American forces in the Philippines — where the struggle for control of Spain's former Pacific empire was still actively unfolding and would soon turn into the brutal Philippine-American War.\n\n🤝 FULL PAGE — \"AMERICAN COMMISSIONERS FOR THE EVACUATION OF CUBA AND PUERTO RICO\"\nA full page of portraits of the American commissioners appointed to oversee the Spanish evacuation of Cuba and Puerto Rico — the men who managed the transfer of sovereignty that the peace protocol had mandated.\n\n📸 FULL PAGE — \"SANTIAGO\"\nA full page of photographs of Santiago — continuing the comprehensive photographic record of the war's defining theater.\n\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n📋 CONDITION\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n\nI photograph every page of every issue so you can inspect the condition closely before purchasing. 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