Naval Triumph on the Mississippi 1862 - Vintage Maritime Print Frame Style:Canvas Wrap grinding hand

grinding hand

all sash and slogan and stiff-collared resolve

when the Great Strike paralyzed half the country and the men who drove the iron horses pressed their case in oil-soaked solidarity

Sept 21st 1846

plotting traction studs across the forefoot and heel in an era when Lombardi's Packers were grinding frozen turf and a shoe's bite could decide a Sunday

Naval Triumph on the Mississippi 1862 - Vintage Maritime Print Frame Style:Canvas Wrap grinding handNaval Triumph on the Mississippi 1862 Vintage Maritime Print a chromolithograph thick with gunsmoke and river mist, where Farragut's wooden fleet shoulders past the Confederate batteries below New Orleans in the spring that broke the South's grip on the Mississippi. The scene crackles with broadside fire and signal flags, rendered by a hand that understood a river war was fought as much by current as by cannon. About the Source Bella Frye sources