The document is a collection of political cartoons, headlines, and sheet music from 1896-1906 relating to the Spanish-American War and its aftermath. It includes cartoons depicting Uncle Sam and Cuba/Columbia from the Chicago Record Herald (1901) and Cleveland Leader (1903), as well as headlines from the New York Journal between 1898-1899 about the war and its conclusion.

1. The Spanish American War Media Representations: Political Cartoons , Headlines and Sheet Music

2. The Cuban Melodrama: The Noble Hero to the Heavy Villain (June 3, 1896)

3. How Some Apprehensive People Picture Uncle Sam After the War, Detroit News (1898)

4. Miss CUBA receives an invitation. Miss COLUMBIA (to her fair neighbor): Won’t you join the stars and be my forty-sixth? Chicago Record Herald (1901)

5. 1896 1901

6. After the First Mile. Cleveland Leader (1903)

7. Uncle Sam to Porto Rico: “And to think, that bad boy came near being your brother!” Chicago Inter Ocean (1905)

8. 1903 1906

9. New York Journal, February 1898

10. Headline from April 25, 1898 New York Journal Headline from May, 1898 New York Journal

12. New York Journal, February 1899