A Race on the Mississippi - Currier & Ives Steamboat Lithograph - Vintage Maritime Print Size:24x36 and the slow gathering of

and the slow gathering of storms the next generation would have to answer for

Father's Day Gifts

19th Century — a portrait of Adele Cutts Douglas

the bathers in wool stockings — Old Orchard Beach was New England's seaside carnival

a curl of sand bent into the Atlantic where lighthouses keep their long vigils and weathered shingles silver in the wind

A Race on the Mississippi - Currier & Ives Steamboat Lithograph - Vintage Maritime Print Size:24x36 and the slow gathering ofA Race on the Mississippi Currier Ives Steamboat Lithograph Vintage Maritime Print a chromolithograph thick with cottonwood smoke and tournament fever, its paddlewheelers churning the muddy current neck and neck beneath a sky bruised orange by their stacks. Currier & Ives understood the antebellum river as Americans wanted to remember it: gilded, gambling, and running flat out for New Orleans. About the Source Bella Frye sources maritime illustrations