Rear Admiral Sampson USN 1899 Frame Style:Canvas Wrap and the firmament a willing

and the firmament a willing accomplice

the moment a republic began

rendered here as if Thebes had wandered into Olmsted's pastoral

The New Cathedral

steamboat whistles

Rear Admiral Sampson USN 1899 Frame Style:Canvas Wrap and the firmament a willingRear Admiral Sampson USN 1899 a portrait of the Navy man who commanded the North Atlantic Squadron at Santiago, his epaulettes catching the light of a republic newly drunk on blue water victory and the cabled headlines of an empire announcing itself. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies, and the lithographic publishers