Steamboat Reindeer - Hudson River Sidewheeler - Vintage Maritime Print Frame Style:Verdigris Frame A lithograph of the Little

A lithograph of the Little Bighorn rendered in the romantic register the nation preferred — Custer upright amid the swirl

Gothic Spire Among Giants: Trinity Church in the Shadow of Progress — a Wall Street tableau in which Richard Upjohn's brownstone steeple

Battle of Quingua

The image arrived in American parlors as elegy and alibi at once

Steamboat Reindeer - Hudson River Sidewheeler - Vintage Maritime Print Frame Style:Verdigris Frame A lithograph of the LittleSteamboat Reindeer Hudson River Sidewheeler Vintage Maritime Print a chromolithograph of the Reindeer churning the Hudson under a banner of coal smoke, her walking beam rocking above the deck like the heartbeat of antebellum America. The print catches that brief, swaggering decade when sidewheelers ruled the river and a captain's reputation lived or died by the speed of his paddleboxes. About the Source Bella Frye sources maritime illustrations from