George Dewey 1899 mid century art California Pasadena arrives in lithographed

California Pasadena arrives in lithographed views of the Rose Parade winding down Colorado Boulevard

before the long war made his face the most photographed in the republic

and the document was already passing from law into legend

rendered with the swagger of a metropolis convinced that steel and ambition could marry two cities into one

The engraver renders gravity as gospel

George Dewey 1899 mid century art California Pasadena arrives in lithographedGeorge Dewey, 1899 the Hero of Manila Bay rendered in the immediate afterglow of Cavite, when a single morning's gunnery had folded the Spanish fleet and the Republic's reach into one telegram. The portrait carries the bearing of a Commodore newly minted Admiral, and a country newly minted as empire. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional