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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;SYNCHRONCITY, post: 1996230, member: 6283&quot;]Hi everyone. I won this old circa 1890&#039;s photo album on ebay. The seller had only one lousy picture of the album and the description just said: old photo album. I took a chance on it sight unseen and figured for $10 who cares if the photos inside aren&#039;t interesting. I&#039;ve wasted $10 on stupider things, lol.</p><p><br /></p><p>When I got it, inside were many interesting amateur photos of nature scenes, an old homestead, a beach house, interior home scenes, cats, Elephant Rock in New Hampshire, people posing in various places, old bicycles, cannons and some ships. Underneath the photos of the ships it said USS Maine. Some other photos showed a tropical location with shacks being built and palm trees in the background. My dad said it looked like Cuba, but it could be anywhere and was possibly from somewhere in South America.</p><p><br /></p><p>A lot of the nature scenes were from New Hampshire. On the backs of one of the photos of a white haired man it said Jonathan Dalgleish Newport New Hampshire Old Homestead. So far what I was able to find was an old book on Google dated from 1901 that said Jonathan Dalgleish was a cocoa merchant. I typed in Jonathan Dalgleish and the word Cuba and that is how I found that.</p><p><br /></p><p>The name of the book I found that in was:</p><p><b><font size="4">Official Commercial Directory of Cuba, Porto Rico and the Entire West Indies ...</font></b></p><p><font size="4">By Spanish-American Directories Co., New York</font></p><p><br /></p><p>What I am looking to find out is if this is really the USS Maine and could the other pictures be of Cuba? I tried to compare these photos with known USS Maine photos, but cannot tell for sure if it is the Maine. In some of the pictures I found of the USS Maine on google images, the smokestacks or columns on the top were different. Apparently in different photos I&#039;ve seen, I saw pictures of the USS Maine with different amounts of smokestacks on them at different times.</p><p><br /></p><p>What may I have here? Thanks in advance for your help.</p><p>More pictures to follow this post...</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]247671[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]247672[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]247673[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]247674[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]247675[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]247676[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]247677[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]247678[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]247679[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]247680[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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