Destruction of the Rebel Merrimac Off Craney Island 1862 - Vintage Maritime Print hairdresser_poster the locomotive buried to its

the locomotive buried to its headlamp in drifts that mock the Gilded Age's faith in steel and timetable

Wheeler 1876 — a Republican campaign lithograph from the centennial year

Tennessee runs from the blue folds of the Smokies to the Mississippi bluffs at Memphis

his likeness reissued for a generation that needed Washington's stoic countenance to anchor the noisier politics of Polk's America

printing the party's planks alongside the soldier-president's likeness in the uneasy summer when Liberal Republicans had bolted and Reconstruction's promises were already fraying at the edges

Destruction of the Rebel Merrimac Off Craney Island 1862 - Vintage Maritime Print hairdresser_poster the locomotive buried to itsDestruction of the Rebel Merrimac Off Craney Island 1862 Vintage Maritime Print a Civil War lithograph rendered in the smoke and spectacle tradition, capturing the moment the ironclad CSS Virginia the Confederacy's reborn Merrimac was scuttled and set ablaze off Craney Island rather than surrendered to Union hands. The print stages her death throes against the Elizabeth River, fire blooming from her casemate like a final, defiant signal flare. About