Columbia Presenting the Sword of Congress and Crowning Admiral George Dewey the Naval Hero of the Nineteenth Century 1899 Frame Style:Canvas Wrap rigged in the careful linework

rigged in the careful linework of an era determined to remember its wooden navy before the steel one swallowed it whole

its new steel-frame towers crowding the skyline above Broad and Market with the unembarrassed vertical ambition of American capital learning what height could mean

his gaunt face already carrying the ledger of a republic at war with itself

William Henry Harrison of Ohio 1840 — a campaign portrait of the Whig general turned candidate

A centennial chromolithograph mustering every state and territorial seal into one heraldic chorus

Columbia Presenting the Sword of Congress and Crowning Admiral George Dewey the Naval Hero of the Nineteenth Century 1899 Frame Style:Canvas Wrap rigged in the careful lineworkColumbia Presenting the Sword of Congress and Crowning Admiral George Dewey the Naval Hero of the Nineteenth Century 1899 an allegorical chromolithograph in which the Republic herself, laurel in hand, anoints the victor of Manila Bay. Empire dressed in classical drapery, the bravado of a young world power decorating its newest god of war. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress,