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and the slow-burning quarrel over the West

The image looks backward with reverence

and any space that takes American political history seriously — the years of speeches that built the country and the divisions that nearly broke it

and the slow gathering of storms the next generation would have to answer for

1896 — a McKinley-era campaign chromolithograph that arrays a century of Republican-claimed presidents into a single protectionist pantheon

Pacific Mail Steamship - Trans Pacific Line - Vintage Maritime Print sacramento_frame and the slow-burning quarrel overPacific Mail Steamship Trans Pacific Line Vintage Maritime Print a Gilded Age chromolithograph of one of the great side wheel mail packets bound for Yokohama, smoke trailing from her stacks as she shoulders through Pacific swell. The rendering belongs to that brief, glittering moment when San Francisco's wharves promised the Orient was only twenty two days away. About the Source Bella Frye sources maritime illustrations from American archives and 19th