This detailed view, a companion image to the album's captioned photograph, shows the fire that swept through Santo Domingo City, Dominican Republic, on 15 February 1904, as seen from a U.S. Navy warship offshore. The town's waterfront buildings and a rising column of smoke are visible beyond the ship's bow rigging and a davit-hung boat. Such images document the routine presence of American naval vessels in Caribbean ports during a period of Dominican political and financial turmoil that led, within a year, to U.S. administration of Dominican customs revenues under President Theodore Roosevelt's policy. Project: 218602