Buffalo Chicago Steam Packet Empire State 1856 - Vintage Maritime Print Frame Style:Verdigris Frame and the brick canyons of

and the brick canyons of Market Street where penny postcards once moved faster than the trolleys

19th Century — a documentary engraving of the June 1898 skirmish in which Wheeler's dismounted cavalry and Roosevelt's Rough Riders pushed Spanish regulars back through the Cuban brush

each ellipse a quiet argument that even the firmament keeps company

1862 — a documentary view of the Union encampment ringing a city held under uneasy occupation

Emancipation Proclamation 1886 — a commemorative lithograph issued more than two decades after Lincoln's decree

Buffalo Chicago Steam Packet Empire State 1856 - Vintage Maritime Print Frame Style:Verdigris Frame and the brick canyons ofBuffalo Chicago Steam Packet Empire State 1856 Vintage Maritime Print a chromolithograph from the brief, gilded heyday of Great Lakes side wheelers, when the Empire State churned the freshwater corridor between Buffalo and Chicago with smokestacks plumed and paddle boxes proud. The scene catches her mid passage, a floating palace of antebellum ambition before rail would quietly render her obsolete. About the Source Bella Frye sources maritime