International Naval Rendezvous at Hampton Roads 1893 - Vintage Maritime Print republic George Washington at Mt Vernon

George Washington at Mt Vernon 1889 — a late-century commemorative engraving issued in the centennial afterglow of the first inauguration

paddlewheelers churning the brown river at Vicksburg

or those who live for the skies

when Ned Hanlan's stroke could empty a city and Toronto Bay glittered with the wagers of two nations watching their oarsmen as carefully as their generals

Nov 25th 1783

International Naval Rendezvous at Hampton Roads 1893 - Vintage Maritime Print republic George Washington at Mt VernonInternational Naval Rendezvous at Hampton Roads 1893 Vintage Maritime Print a chromolithograph tableau of the Columbian Naval Review, where the ironclads of a dozen nations rode at anchor off Old Point Comfort in salute to the New World's four hundredth year. The print catches that Gilded Age peculiarity: warships dressed in signal flags like debutantes, their black hulls softened by the haze of a Virginia spring. About the Source Bella Frye sources