Burning of the Inman Line Steamship City of Montreal - Vintage Maritime Print era-wwi issued in the long shadow

issued in the long shadow of the war that nearly unmade it — the dates bracketing a century in which the promises of Philadelphia were tested

Battle of Cold Harbor 1888 — a chromolithograph rendered nearly a quarter century after the slaughter

the gold standard and the high tariff dressed up as inheritance from Washington himself

Bella Frye sources lighthouse drawings from American maritime archives — the U

and the weight of a country at war with itself became the visual shorthand for the Union itself

Burning of the Inman Line Steamship City of Montreal - Vintage Maritime Print era-wwi issued in the long shadowBurning of the Inman Line Steamship City of Montreal Vintage Maritime Print a chromolithograph that catches the Inman liner mid catastrophe in the mid Atlantic of August 1887 flames climbing her rigging, lifeboats pulling hard for open water, and the great iron hulled passenger steamer rendered as a Gilded Age cautionary tale in pigment and smoke. About the Source Bella Frye sources maritime illustrations from American archives and 19th century