Author: Wright, Marcus F., ed
Title: The Official and Pictorial Record of the Story of American Expansion, Portraying the Crowning Achievements of the Mckinley-Roosevelt Administrations. With Fullest Information Respecting the Original Thirteen States; the Several Cessions and Annexations, Including Alaska, Hawaii, Porto Rico, the Philippines, Samoa, and Panama Canal. Complied and Written Directly from the Official Records at Washington, with the Endorsement of the President, of the Secretary of War, and of the Commanding Officers of the Army and Navy. Two Volumes
Description: Washington, General Marcus F. Wright/War Records Office, 1904. Hardcover. Green cloth with gilt pictorial decorations. Covers scuffed, with some discoloration; extremities badly frayed; cloth split at outside edge of vol. 1's front cover; vol. 1's front hinge and endpaper detached, with edges chipped; pages in both volumes slightly toned, but otherwise very good condition. Two volumes, 641p. in all. Illus. Folio. "1500 original illustrations and official pictures taken of actual scenes..and illuminated by a series of double-page colored maps of Porto Rico, the Philippines and Hawaii, and chromatic prints of flags of all nations, medals, signals, and insignia that represent all ranks of officers in the Army and Navy.

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