A Race on the Mississippi - Currier & Ives Steamboat Lithograph - Vintage Maritime Print Size:24x36 General Benjamin Harrison "Come on

General Benjamin Harrison "Come on Boys

ready to hang

where a sober profile was its own argument

and the slow gathering of storms the next generation would have to answer for

A Race on the Mississippi - Currier & Ives Steamboat Lithograph - Vintage Maritime Print Size:24x36 General Benjamin Harrison "Come onA Race on the Mississippi Currier Ives Steamboat Lithograph Vintage Maritime Print a chromolithograph thick with cottonwood smoke and tournament fever, its paddlewheelers churning the muddy current neck and neck beneath a sky bruised orange by their stacks. Currier & Ives understood the antebellum river as Americans wanted to remember it: gilded, gambling, and running flat out for New Orleans. About the Source Bella Frye sources maritime illustrations