New York Ferry Boat - Currier & Ives Sidewheel Steamer - Vintage Maritime Print Size:18x24 Missouri St Louis rises in

Missouri St Louis rises in these postcards beneath the silver curve of the Mississippi — Eads Bridge stitched across the water

Abraham Lincoln Assassinated April 14 1865

sternwheelers drifting low against the current as evening light gilds the orchards terraced along the bluffs — a working waterway hushed to crimson and amber

19th Century — a portrait of Old Hickory rendered in the iron-jawed iconography his partisans demanded

New York Ferry Boat - Currier & Ives Sidewheel Steamer - Vintage Maritime Print Size:18x24 Missouri St Louis rises inNew York Ferry Boat Currier Ives Sidewheel Steamer Vintage Maritime Print a chromolithograph from the firm that taught America how to picture itself paddleboxes churning the East River, smokestacks crowned in coal black plumes, the workaday choreography of harbor traffic rendered with the bright, populist confidence only Currier & Ives could summon. About the Source Bella Frye sources maritime illustrations from American archives and 19th century