Bombardment of San Juan, Puerto Rico, 1898 Frame Style:Ebony Frame the marquees and newspaper towers

the marquees and newspaper towers of Times Square caught mid-blaze in that peculiar Manhattan dusk when the bulbs outshone the stars

The Gentlemans Vice Patent 1193593 belongs to the smokehouse era of design — when the act of lighting a cigar carried enough cultural weight to justify a patent application and a draftsman's afternoon

James Theodore Augustus Holly

his Anaconda Plan already drawn in the margins of a country splitting open

Bombardment of San Juan, Puerto Rico, 1898 Frame Style:Ebony Frame the marquees and newspaper towersBombardment of San Juan, Puerto Rico, 1898 renders the morning Admiral Sampson's squadron threw shellfire at the Spanish harbor fortifications a documentary engraving of empire announcing itself in cordite, the old colonial citadel framed by the smoke of a republic newly comfortable with overseas guns. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional