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

the smoke of Sherman's campaign still rising behind him

and slow imperial drift

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

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