Raphael Semmes of the Confederate Raider Alabama, 1862-1865 vintage lace art or simply someone who looks

or simply someone who looks up at the sky with wonder

where the first iron skeleton was swallowed by an 1851 gale before this dovetailed granite tower rose in its place

The Brewmasters Contraption — Patent Archive Print is a piece of living American history — an archival document transformed into a museum-quality framed print for your wall

the firmament's most quiet memento mori

February 4th

Raphael Semmes of the Confederate Raider Alabama, 1862-1865 vintage lace art or simply someone who looksRaphael Semmes of the Confederate Raider Alabama, 1862 1865. Semmes stands with the unhurried confidence of a man who burned sixty five Union prizes before Cherbourg's guns finally answered him the South's most feared commerce raider rendered in the steady hand of a wartime portraitist who knew the legend was already outrunning the man. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress,