Battle of the Monitor and Merrimac at Hampton Roads 1862 - Vintage Maritime Print Frame Style:Verdigris Frame A union document from the

A union document from the coal-dust end of the century

The Gentlemans Vice Bussert Tobacco Pipe Patent is a drawing from the long American romance with tobacco — when a pipe

each insisting it is the true seat of the city

1890s — a fraternal portrait engraving of the schoolteacher who

The schematic charts the caisson pier

Battle of the Monitor and Merrimac at Hampton Roads 1862 - Vintage Maritime Print Frame Style:Verdigris Frame A union document from theBattle of the Monitor and Merrimac at Hampton Roads 1862 Vintage Maritime Print a chromolithograph thick with cannon smoke and ironclad menace, where the Union's low slung cheesebox on a raft trades fire with the casemated Virginia across the brackish chop of Hampton Roads. The scene captures that strange March morning when wooden navies became obsolete and every shell, ricocheting off riveted plate, seemed to announce the arrival of a colder century.