Burning of the Inman Line Steamship City of Montreal - Vintage Maritime Print era-wwi Union Soldiers at Point Lookout

Union Soldiers at Point Lookout Tennessee 1863 — a documentary photograph from the heights above Chattanooga

issued in the long shadow of the war that nearly unmade it — the dates bracketing a century in which the promises of Philadelphia were tested

and the weight of a country at war with itself became the visual shorthand for the Union itself

a likeness rendered in the sober tonal register of a country already acquainted with casualty lists

Bella Frye sources lighthouse drawings from American maritime archives — the U

Burning of the Inman Line Steamship City of Montreal - Vintage Maritime Print era-wwi Union Soldiers at Point LookoutBurning of the Inman Line Steamship City of Montreal Vintage Maritime Print a chromolithograph that catches the Inman liner mid catastrophe in the mid Atlantic of August 1887 flames climbing her rigging, lifeboats pulling hard for open water, and the great iron hulled passenger steamer rendered as a Gilded Age cautionary tale in pigment and smoke. About the Source Bella Frye sources maritime illustrations from American archives and 19th century