Mississippi Biloxi Aloha Stadium gift Rear Admiral George Dewey USN

Rear Admiral George Dewey USN 19th Century — the hero of Manila Bay rendered in full naval regalia

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These are postcards written from a city built to be photographed

every baluster and cornice rendered in the civic vocabulary of a republic still rebuilding its self-image after the war

Mississippi Biloxi Aloha Stadium gift Rear Admiral George Dewey USNMississippi Biloxi rises from the Gulf in linen postcards heavy with shrimp luggers, oyster schooners, and the long white sweep of the world's longest man made beach a coast where lighthouses kept watch over magnolia shaded boulevards and the Biloxi Bay bridge stretched toward Ocean Springs in lithographed twilight. About the Source Bella Frye curates American postcards from the great postcard golden age (1900s 1930s) greetings cards, large letter