Rear Admiral Dewey's Flagship Olympia 1898 Frame Style:Bourbon Frame from Jefferson's powdered restraint to

from Jefferson's powdered restraint to McKinley's gilded lapel

rendered with the brassy confidence of Gilded Age electioneering — the Plumed Knight and his general yoked together for a contest Grover Cleveland would narrowly steal away

The Keepers Blueprint Fishing Battery Light Station Engineering Drawings charts the screw-pile bones of a Chesapeake sentinel — a hexagonal cottage perched above the oyster grounds

and the slow blue haze that settles over the highlands at dusk

Rear Admiral Dewey's Flagship Olympia 1898 Frame Style:Bourbon Frame from Jefferson's powdered restraint toRear Admiral Dewey's Flagship Olympia 1898 a press photograph of the protected cruiser that carried Commodore Dewey into Manila Bay, her white hull and tall stacks the very silhouette of an American Navy newly convinced of its reach. Empire, it turned out, had a draft and a displacement. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical