First Landing of Columbus on the Shores of the New World, at San Salvador prints of Milwaukee Admiral Dewey on the Bridge

Admiral Dewey on the Bridge 1899 — a press image of the hero of Manila Bay at his command rail

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Manhattan and Brooklyn

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First Landing of Columbus on the Shores of the New World, at San Salvador prints of Milwaukee Admiral Dewey on the BridgeFirst Landing of Columbus on the Shores of the New World, at San Salvador an engraving freighted with the founding myth of the hemisphere, staging the October morning at San Salvador as solemn theater: banner unfurled, knee bent, an ocean's distance compressed into a single ceremonial gesture. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical