USS Pennsylvania - Ship of the Line 140 Guns - Vintage Maritime Print Frame Style:Bourbon Frame filed in an era when

filed in an era when the carriage horse and the saddle bred still ruled American roads

A documentary engraving of the colossal wooden hall raised in 1869 to house Gilmore's chorus of ten thousand — a city building cathedrals to harmony only four years after Appomattox

and reckonings seriously

and timber — a falls-and-railroads city cataloged in linen and real-photo postcards from the early decades of the last century

glittering moment when San Francisco's wharves promised the Orient was only twenty-two days away

USS Pennsylvania - Ship of the Line 140 Guns - Vintage Maritime Print Frame Style:Bourbon Frame filed in an era whenUSS Pennsylvania Ship of the Line 140 Guns Vintage Maritime Print a chromolithograph of the largest sailing warship the U. S. Navy ever commissioned, her four decks bristling with the full count of 140 guns that made her more rumor than fighting vessel. The print renders her in full canvas, a leviathan of antebellum ambition that would meet her end not in battle but in flames at the Norfolk Navy Yard in 1861. About the Source Bella Frye sources