Admiral George Dewey and Mrs. Susan Boardman Goodwin Dewey at Home Key_West_canvas domestic kind of light

domestic kind of light

rendered in the grave engraver's hand reserved for men who had seen Shiloh and the Wilderness — the quiet weight of a soldier asked to govern the country he had only just finished holding together

and white clapboard meetinghouses standing watch over the Green Mountains

the banner waves stars and stripes for a Union the candidates could no longer hold together — popular sovereignty stitched onto bunting as the country marched toward Sumter

The Ganim Apparatus Patent for Oriental Smoke & Vapor is the kind of detail that survives only in the patent record — a small mechanical solution dedicated entirely to the pleasure of a slow draw

Admiral George Dewey and Mrs. Susan Boardman Goodwin Dewey at Home Key_West_canvas domestic kind of lightAdmiral George Dewey and Mrs. Susan Boardman Goodwin Dewey at Home the hero of Manila Bay photographed in the domestic register, the conqueror of the Spanish fleet rendered, improbably, as a husband in his own parlor. Empire wore a velvet coat that season, and the press obliged. 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