Combat Between the Monitor and Merrimac at Hampton Roads - Vintage Maritime Print Frame Style:Bourbon Frame " the Giants' swaggering outfielder

" the Giants' swaggering outfielder who hit like a matinee idol and lived like one too

cataloged in linen postcards from the era when the river learned to make light

this chromolithograph reanimates the Genoese mariner for a Chicago crowd hungry to crown four centuries of conquest with white-plaster pavilions and electric light — the Admiral repackaged as the patron saint of American arrival

the timbered shore dissolving into dusk

The Deering Beer Pump Patent Mechanical Drawings of Victorian Libation Engineering captures one of those workhorse innovations that quietly defined how a glass of beer got from cellar to tap — a piece of equipment whose elegance was invisible to the drinker

Combat Between the Monitor and Merrimac at Hampton Roads - Vintage Maritime Print Frame Style:Bourbon Frame " the Giants' swaggering outfielderCombat Between the Monitor and Merrimac at Hampton Roads Vintage Maritime Print renders the March 1862 duel that rendered every wooden navy in the world obsolete by sundown the Union's cheesebox on a raft circling the Confederate ironclad in the smoke choked shallows of Hampton Roads. A chromolithograph that understood it was witnessing the death of sail and the birth of steel. About the Source Bella Frye sources maritime illustrations from American