Explosion of the Maine 1898 oakland_old_map Dec 14 AD 1799 —

Dec 14 AD 1799 — a mourning lithograph fixing the hour the General slipped from Mount Vernon into myth

and the Belle Isle bridge — postcards mailed from the Motor City when assembly lines were new and the Detroit River carried freighters down from the Lakes in steady

Bella Frye sources lighthouse drawings from American maritime archives — the U

The Bloodletters Beacon Barber Pole Patent Blueprint comes from the great age of the American barbershop — when a shave was a ritual

and Main Street tableaus flicker between Mark Twain's gabled house and the Colt armory's onion-blue dome

Explosion of the Maine 1898 oakland_old_map Dec 14 AD 1799 —Explosion of the Maine 1898 the Havana Harbor catastrophe rendered in the urgent linework of the illustrated press, smoke and shattered hull pitched against a night sky that would, within weeks, become a battle cry. Here is the spark itself, the moment empire found its pretext. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies, and the