George Dewey 1899 Victoria_BC_Print and rose gardens spilling across

and rose gardens spilling across Washington Park — a city of lumber barons and rain-slick streetcars cataloged in linen and real-photo postcards from the rail-and-roses era

half a century after his death

the ink still warm with April's wound

The Cape Blanco Light Station Blueprint Guardian of the Oregon Coast reads as a draftsman's reckoning with the westernmost edge of the continent — a brick conical tower drawn to withstand the gales that batter that basalt headland

its lantern room and keeper's quarters drawn with the patient precision of an engineer who knew the Patapsco fog as intimately as the mason who set the granite below

George Dewey 1899 Victoria_BC_Print and rose gardens spilling acrossGeorge Dewey, 1899 the Hero of Manila Bay rendered in the immediate afterglow of Cavite, when a single morning's gunnery had folded the Spanish fleet and the Republic's reach into one telegram. The portrait carries the bearing of a Commodore newly minted Admiral, and a country newly minted as empire. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional