Rear Admiral Dewey's Flagship Olympia 1898 Frame Style:Bourbon Frame taking its place beside the

taking its place beside the Herschelian Uranus like a newcomer ushered into a cathedral

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

and ventilator ball are drawn in the patient hand of a draftsman charting the small architecture standing between a keeper and the dark

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

its twelve houses engraved with the old conviction that a soul's hour of birth was inked somewhere between Aries and Pisces

Rear Admiral Dewey's Flagship Olympia 1898 Frame Style:Bourbon Frame taking its place beside theRear 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