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The Views of Santiago photograph album contains 59 views of Santiago de Cuba taken by professional photographer C. A. Smith including images of hospitals, landmarks, and streets as well as United States military encampments.

The Views of Santiago photograph album contains 59 views of Santiago de Cuba taken by professional photographer C. A. Smith including images of hospitals, landmarks, and streets as well as United States military encampments.

The album (27 x 35 cm) has lost its original cover. The first several pages of the album primarily contain images of the General Hospital and its staff while many subsequent images are of Morro Castle and other battlements, the Palace, the main marketplace, and La Alameda. Also present are images of United States military camps and headquarters as well as a photograph of the Peace Tree/Santiago Surrender Tree.

Worden G. Wood kept this sketchbook around 1898 while he was serving as a reserve in the United States Navy aboard the U.S.S. Yankee during the Spanish American War.

The volume features pencil sketches of the Yankee, the locations it traveled, its battles, and other ships it encountered. Wood named places such as Casilda, Trinidad, Guantanamo, Santiago, and others. The cover of the sketchbook is signed "W. G. Wood, U.S.S. Yankee." Included amongst the sketches are deceased Spanish soldiers.