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The Starting Point of the Great War Between the States — a retrospective lithograph fixing its gaze on the first spark

A tableau of carriages

and the slow drawl of a Southern crossroads

Around the Globe with the United States Atlantic Fleet - Vintage Maritime Print chronicles Roosevelt's Great White Fleet on its 1907 world cruise — sixteen battleships rendered hull-to-hull in a chromolithograph that swells with the bravado of a young empire announcing itself by smokestack and signal flag

The Iron Sentinel of Cape Canaveral Maritime Engineering Blueprint charts the skeletal iron tower that has watched over Florida's hurricane coast since 1868 — its braced legs

Admiral George Dewey and Mrs. Susan Boardman Goodwin Dewey at Home framed map maine The Starting Point of theAdmiral George Dewey and Mrs. Susan Boardman Goodwin Dewey at Home the hero of Manila Bay photographed in the domestic register, the conqueror of the Spanish fleet rendered, improbably, as a husband in his own parlor. Empire wore a velvet coat that season, and the press obliged. 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