Steamboat C. Vanderbilt on the Hudson River - Vintage Maritime Print framed paratrooper smoke-like spirals and gem-strewn clusters

smoke-like spirals and gem-strewn clusters that haunted the great reflectors of the 1800s — Lord Rosse's leviathan among them — into a single contemplative plate

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

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Steamboat C. Vanderbilt on the Hudson River - Vintage Maritime Print framed paratrooper smoke-like spirals and gem-strewn clustersSteamboat 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