Battle of the Monitor and Merrimac at Hampton Roads 1862 - Vintage Maritime Print Frame Style:Verdigris Frame rendered with the parlor decorum

rendered with the parlor decorum of a White House trying to look respectable again

1890s — a fraternal portrait engraving of the schoolteacher who

each insisting it is the true seat of the city

Wilson Lumpkin Governor of Georgia 1838 — a portrait of the man whose hand guided Cherokee removal into law

The boy here is already being shaped into the martyr to come

Battle of the Monitor and Merrimac at Hampton Roads 1862 - Vintage Maritime Print Frame Style:Verdigris Frame rendered with the parlor decorumBattle of the Monitor and Merrimac at Hampton Roads 1862 Vintage Maritime Print a chromolithograph thick with cannon smoke and ironclad menace, where the Union's low slung cheesebox on a raft trades fire with the casemated Virginia across the brackish chop of Hampton Roads. The scene captures that strange March morning when wooden navies became obsolete and every shell, ricocheting off riveted plate, seemed to announce the arrival of a colder century.