A Jib and Mainsail Race - American Yacht Lithograph - Vintage Maritime Print Size:24x36 Naval Victory on the Mississippi

Naval Victory on the Mississippi River Near Fort Wright - Vintage Maritime Print — a chromolithograph thick with gunsmoke and river haze

where pontoons inched across cold water and Burnside's men took a town house by house before the slaughter at Marye's Heights still to come

the Charles Town morning rendered with the gravity of an abolitionist icon already passing into legend

Willamette Falls At Oregon City Oregon arrives in thundering horseshoe spill — water sheeting over basalt ledges while paper mills crowd the bluffs and woolen smokestacks plume against the gorge

A Jib and Mainsail Race - American Yacht Lithograph - Vintage Maritime Print Size:24x36 Naval Victory on the MississippiA Jib and Mainsail Race American Yacht Lithograph Vintage Maritime Print a chromolithographed tableau of Gilded Age sport, where sloops heel hard against a stiff breeze and canvas swells taut between jib and main. The scene belongs to that brief, glittering moment when American yachting became theater, and every leeward rail buried in spray was a wager made visible. About the Source Bella Frye sources maritime illustrations from American archives and