Paley, William Daly, 1857-1924, camera. Thomas A. Edison, Inc. Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress) DLC Theodore Roosevelt Association Collection (Library of Congress) DLC moving image Actualities (Motion pictures) lcgft Silent films. lcgft Short films. lcgft Nonfiction films. lcgft United States : Edison Manufacturing Co., 1898. eng "Here is a detail of the 34th Michigan Regiment engaged in road making. Under command of Captain Dodd of Troop E, 3rd Regular Cavalry, they are road making, that the siege guns may go to the front. The chaparral and thick underbrush has been cleared away, and the soldiers are working with picks and shovels, to make the way passable"--The Phonoscope. Copyright: Thomas A. Edison; 3Sept1898; 52059. Original main title lacking. Duration: 0:42 at 20 fps. Paper print shelf number (LC 0989) was changed when the paper prints were re-housed. Additional holdings for this title may be available. Contact reference librarian. Sources used: Copyright catalog, motion pictures, 1894-1912, p. 63; Musser, C. Edison motion pictures 1890-1900, p. 252; Niver, K. Early motion pictures, p. 337; Edison films catalog, no. 94, March 1900, p. 10 [MI]; Edison films catalog, no. 105, July 1901, p. 34 [MI]; Theodore Roosevelt Association...catalog, p. 150-151; Keller, Allan, The Spanish-American War, p. 129a, 137-140; Freidel, Frank B. The splendid little war, p.115-117; The Phonoscope, October, 1898, p. 15. Camera, William Paley. Filmed in June or July 1898, near Santiago, Cuba. Early motion pictures : the Paper Print Collection in the Library of Congress / by Kemp R. Niver. Library of Congress. 1985. The Theodore Roosevelt Association film collection : a catalog / prepared by Wendy White-Henson and Veronica M. Gillespie. Library of Congress, 1986. United States. Army--Military construction operations. United States. Army. Michigan Infantry Regiment, 34th (1898-1899) Military roads--Cuba--Santiago de Cuba. Spanish-American War, 1898. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as digital files. Troops making military road in front of Santiago https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mbrsmi/ntscrm.00013124