Explosion of the Maine 1898 Frame Style:Ebony Frame Andrew Hull Foote 19th Century

Andrew Hull Foote 19th Century renders the Union flag officer in the sober register of naval portraiture — the gunboat commodore of Forts Henry and Donelson

and Saturn are bound in elliptical obedience

its tents and barracks pitched against the long arithmetic of casualty lists

A studio portrait of the apostate wife who sued the Mormon prophet for divorce and toured the lecture circuit with her grievance

cataloguing voices that carried Cymric meter into an English-speaking republic

Explosion of the Maine 1898 Frame Style:Ebony Frame Andrew Hull Foote 19th CenturyExplosion 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