Admiral Dewey on the Bridge 1899 Size:18x24 half founder

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dating itself to the year a president was shot in a Washington train station and the long postwar arithmetic of remembrance was still being tallied

rendered in the year he was wounded at Second Bull Run and reassigned to command the Middle Department

arranging the first ten executives in lithographed council

rendered in the sober lithographic register reserved for men whose vocations crossed both ocean and color line in the long aftermath of the war

Admiral Dewey on the Bridge 1899 Size:18x24 half founderAdmiral Dewey on the Bridge 1899 a press image of the hero of Manila Bay at his command rail, freighted with the swagger of a navy that had just dismantled a Spanish fleet before breakfast. Empire wore a white uniform that year, and Dewey was its calm, mustachioed face. 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