Destruction of the USS Maine in Havana Harbor 1898 - Vintage Maritime Print Size:24x18 The image carries the cruel

The image carries the cruel arithmetic of its moment: a creed printed in bright ink as the law itself was being unprinted

The Tooley Pomace Press Patent — Blueprint of the Autumn Crush is a snapshot of an industry that prized precision over poetry — the apparatus of bonded warehouses

Death of General Zachary Taylor 1850 — a mourning lithograph for the Whig hero of Buena Vista

when the President's face had already begun its slow erosion into the gaunt

when a country still bleeding from Appomattox had to learn a second kind of grief

Destruction of the USS Maine in Havana Harbor 1898 - Vintage Maritime Print Size:24x18 The image carries the cruelDestruction of the USS Maine in Havana Harbor 1898 Vintage Maritime Print a chromolithograph rendered in the lurid orange of detonation, the battleship's forward magazine erupting against the Cuban night while smaller craft scatter across the harbor like startled gulls. The scene captures the February evening that gave a generation its rallying cry, drawn while the wreckage was still smoldering and the wires still humming. About the Source Bella Frye