Destruction of San Francisco by Earthquake and Fire old NOLA print Bombardment of Island Number Ten

Bombardment of Island Number Ten on the Mississippi - Vintage Maritime Print renders that long April siege of 1862 in full chromolithographic thunder — Foote's ironclads and mortar rafts wreathed in cannon smoke as the Confederate stronghold in the river's great horseshoe bend buckles under Union fire

Charles Sumner 1874

where the long shadow of the war was kept tended by the men who had walked through it

the banner waves stars and stripes for a Union the candidates could no longer hold together — popular sovereignty stitched onto bunting as the country marched toward Sumter

Ford Field Original Artwork from Bella Frye

Destruction of San Francisco by Earthquake and Fire old NOLA print Bombardment of Island Number TenDestruction of San Francisco by Earthquake and Fire a documentary view of the April 1906 catastrophe, when a city built on gold rush bravado buckled along the fault line and then surrendered the rest of itself to three days of fire. The image carries the strange hush of a metropolis reduced to grid and ash. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional