Boer War Comes to Brooklyn details was followed by a snowstorm

was followed by a snowstorm that left drifts as high as nine feet in Birmingham

After 10 minutes

my fellow citizens

"Storm Played No Favorites with Men or Beasts

Boer War Comes to Brooklyn details was followed by a snowstormIn the early days of silent films, before movie companies moved to Southern California, New York was the nation's film capital. War movies were one of the most popular genres and in this photo George Melford directs "The Boer War" in Brooklyn. This photograph was used as a promotional photo for "The Boer War" around its release March 31, 1914. Vitagraph Studios, which built its first studio in the Flatbush area of Brooklyn in 1905, made "The Boer War"