Steamboat C. Vanderbilt on the Hudson River - Vintage Maritime Print framed paratrooper These postcards remember a city

These postcards remember a city built on tobacco warehouses

a face the republic studied while it tried to stitch itself back together

Pairs naturally with vintage nautical charts

Assassinated April 14th 1865 — a mourning lithograph issued in the rawest hours of national grief

A Sheltered Cove Amid The Wave Worn Rock Of Cape Flattery Washington arrives at the continent's farthest edge — basalt headlands gnawed into arches and sea caves

Steamboat C. Vanderbilt on the Hudson River - Vintage Maritime Print framed paratrooper These postcards remember a citySteamboat C. Vanderbilt on the Hudson River Vintage Maritime Print a chromolithograph in the Currier & Ives mold, with the Commodore's namesake sidewheeler churning a wake down the Hudson, smokestacks plumed and walking beam in mid stroke. The scene belongs to that brief Gilded Age moment when river steamers were both workhorse and showpiece, and Vanderbilt's name on a hull meant something on the water. About the Source Bella Frye sources maritime