Rear Admiral Dewey's Flagship Olympia 1898 Frame Style:Bourbon Frame its twelve houses engraved with

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

from Jefferson's powdered restraint to McKinley's gilded lapel

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

the signatures

an astronomical lithograph in which Jupiter looms cathedral-vast above a diminished Earth and Mercury cowers like an acolyte

Rear Admiral Dewey's Flagship Olympia 1898 Frame Style:Bourbon Frame its twelve houses engraved withRear 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