| Goodbye Prisoners of War |
Strawbery Banke Presents
HISTORIC PORTSMOUTH #82
After summering in a makeshift prison on Seavey’s island, roughly 1,600 prisoners of the Spanish American War returned home. Most left in better condition. Sadly, some died. Tourists grew fond of watching the POWs as they performed mock bullfights and washed their dishes in the river off Portsmouth Naval Shipyard. Here sightseers wave goodbye to prisoners aboard the "City of Rome" in September 1898.
HISTORIC PHOTOS of the Greater Portsmouth Area appear here weekly
SEE the Spanish Prisoners in Navy Hospital
From HISTORIC PORTSMOUTH
Early Photographs from the Collections of Strawbery Banke
by James L. Garvin & Susan Grigg, Peter Randall Publisher
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