Battle of Paceo, Manila, Feb 4th-5th 1899 Frame Style:Canvas Wrap and the great iron-hulled passenger

and the great iron-hulled passenger steamer rendered as a Gilded Age cautionary tale in pigment and smoke

Euclid Avenue's Millionaires' Row paraded across linen postcards

freshly emerged from the Compromise that ended Reconstruction

when Adams had traded the executive mansion for a House seat and the moral thunder of an antislavery conscience that refused to be gaveled silent

and the slow gravity of money rising up Broad Street like incense

Battle of Paceo, Manila, Feb 4th-5th 1899 Frame Style:Canvas Wrap and the great iron-hulled passengerBattle of Paceo, Manila, Feb 4th 5th 1899 a documentary engraving of the opening hours of the Philippine American War, when American rifles answered Filipino independence with the cold arithmetic of empire across the Pasig suburbs. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies, and the lithographic publishers (Currier & Ives, Kurz &