Columbia Presenting the Sword of Congress and Crowning Admiral George Dewey the Naval Hero of the Nineteenth Century 1899 Frame Style:Canvas Wrap The Oppl Beer Transport Apparatus

The Oppl Beer Transport Apparatus — Patent Drawing No 527123 is the kind of drawing a brewmaster pinned above his desk — a small mechanical solution to a very specific problem of yeast

his fur cap and spectacles doing the quiet work of a republic still arguing for its own existence

his likeness drawn from the lithographer's deliberate hand nearly two decades after emancipation — an assertion

A centennial chromolithograph mustering every state and territorial seal into one heraldic chorus

his gaunt face already carrying the ledger of a republic at war with itself

Columbia Presenting the Sword of Congress and Crowning Admiral George Dewey the Naval Hero of the Nineteenth Century 1899 Frame Style:Canvas Wrap The Oppl Beer Transport ApparatusColumbia Presenting the Sword of Congress and Crowning Admiral George Dewey the Naval Hero of the Nineteenth Century 1899 an allegorical chromolithograph in which the Republic herself, laurel in hand, anoints the victor of Manila Bay. Empire dressed in classical drapery, the bravado of a young world power decorating its newest god of war. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress,