Archivists at the Naval History and Heritage Command in Washington, D.C., recently discovered two wooden boxes containing hundreds of glass-plate photos dating ...
A Clue A closeup of one of the two wooden boxes provides a clue as to the origin of the glass-plate photos. The barely legible writing says: "Photographic Slides, US Navy Military Activities, In and Around Manila, Spanish-American War - 1898 and Philippine Insurrection, Douglas White, War Correspondent."
White was a photographer and war correspondent for the San Francisco Examiner.
Investigators surmise the glass slides were created around 1912, possibly to be used during a slide-show presentation about the war.