Rear Admiral Dewey's Flagship Olympia 1898 Frame Style:Bourbon Frame rendered with the brassy confidence

rendered with the brassy confidence of Gilded Age electioneering — the Plumed Knight and his general yoked together for a contest Grover Cleveland would narrowly steal away

and ventilator ball are drawn in the patient hand of a draftsman charting the small architecture standing between a keeper and the dark

from Jefferson's powdered restraint to McKinley's gilded lapel

its twelve houses engraved with the old conviction that a soul's hour of birth was inked somewhere between Aries and Pisces

The Barbers Edge Patent Archive of Ee Deputys Safety Razor reads as a study in restraint — the close

Rear Admiral Dewey's Flagship Olympia 1898 Frame Style:Bourbon Frame rendered with the brassy confidenceRear Admiral Dewey's Flagship Olympia 1898 a press photograph of the protected cruiser that carried Commodore Dewey into Manila Bay, her white hull and tall stacks the very silhouette of an American Navy newly convinced of its reach. Empire, it turned out, had a draft and a displacement. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical