Columbia Presenting the Sword of Congress and Crowning Admiral George Dewey the Naval Hero of the Nineteenth Century 1899 Frame Style:Canvas Wrap A campaign portrait of the

A campaign portrait of the grandson and son of presidents

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

rigged in the careful linework of an era determined to remember its wooden navy before the steel one swallowed it whole

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

Columbia Presenting the Sword of Congress and Crowning Admiral George Dewey the Naval Hero of the Nineteenth Century 1899 Frame Style:Canvas Wrap A campaign portrait of theColumbia 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,