A Jib and Mainsail Race - American Yacht Lithograph - Vintage Maritime Print Size:24x36 Willamette Falls At Oregon City

Willamette Falls At Oregon City Oregon arrives in thundering horseshoe spill — water sheeting over basalt ledges while paper mills crowd the bluffs and woolen smokestacks plume against the gorge

its clippings and ephemera pasted with the trembling care of a fan who knew Grover Cleveland Alexander's strikeout of Tony Lazzeri would outlive every paper it was printed on

Oklahoma Tulsa arrives slick with derrick grease and Art Deco ambition — a city that called itself the Oil Capital of the World and had the lithographed postcards to prove it

Harvey's inventor's diagram arrives from the bare-knuckle twilight

electric daylight

A Jib and Mainsail Race - American Yacht Lithograph - Vintage Maritime Print Size:24x36 Willamette Falls At Oregon CityA Jib and Mainsail Race American Yacht Lithograph Vintage Maritime Print a chromolithographed tableau of Gilded Age sport, where sloops heel hard against a stiff breeze and canvas swells taut between jib and main. The scene belongs to that brief, glittering moment when American yachting became theater, and every leeward rail buried in spray was a wager made visible. About the Source Bella Frye sources maritime illustrations from American archives and