Naval Triumph on the Mississippi 1862 - Vintage Maritime Print Frame Style:Canvas Wrap wait to be pulled out

wait to be pulled out of empire's first photo opportunity

drawn at the moment when derricks and refineries had reshaped the western Pennsylvania hills into ledgers of crude and capital

that the United States had become a Pacific power

all sash and slogan and stiff-collared resolve

printed cheap and built to outlive the segregation that tried to keep it small

Naval Triumph on the Mississippi 1862 - Vintage Maritime Print Frame Style:Canvas Wrap wait to be pulled outNaval Triumph on the Mississippi 1862 Vintage Maritime Print a chromolithograph thick with gunsmoke and river mist, where Farragut's wooden fleet shoulders past the Confederate batteries below New Orleans in the spring that broke the South's grip on the Mississippi. The scene crackles with broadside fire and signal flags, rendered by a hand that understood a river war was fought as much by current as by cannon. About the Source Bella Frye sources