Compagnie Generale Transatlantique 19 Size:24x18 Rhode Island arrives in salt-bleached

Rhode Island arrives in salt-bleached blues and Narragansett greys — Newport's gilded cottages

19th Century — a heraldic chromolithograph that gathers the founding republics into a single page

tobacconists

and Saturn are bound in elliptical obedience

1847 — a lithograph that mythologizes Old Rough and Ready on his horse amid the smoke of the Mexican War

Compagnie Generale Transatlantique 19 Size:24x18 Rhode Island arrives in salt-bleachedCompagnie Generale Transatlantique 19 a relic of the French Line in its ornamented prime, when transatlantic crossings were sold as floating salons and the company's funnels promised Paris by way of saltwater, all rendered in the confident commercial vernacular of an age that believed steam could civilize the ocean. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives,