Capture of El Caney and El Paso Fortifications of Santiago 1898 Size:24x18 and the long white sweep

and the long white sweep of the world's longest man-made beach — a coast where lighthouses kept watch over magnolia-shaded boulevards and the Biloxi Bay bridge stretched toward Ocean Springs in lithographed twilight

and the artifacts of American local memory

The likeness arrives a full century after Thomas's own presses thundered

The Corked Secret Patent for Bottle Stopper Fastening belongs to the great age of American bottling

the soldier's discipline turned at last upon the ledger of his own life

Capture of El Caney and El Paso Fortifications of Santiago 1898 Size:24x18 and the long white sweepCapture of El Caney and El Paso Fortifications of Santiago 1898 a documentary engraving of the July assault on Santiago's outer ring, where blockhouse and ridge fell to American volleys and the Cuban campaign tipped, almost casually, into the founding gesture of a new imperial century. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies,