Steamboat C. Vanderbilt on the Hudson River - Vintage Maritime Print framed paratrooper and the brisk civic ambition

and the brisk civic ambition of a city rebuilt from its own ashes

These postcards remember a city built on tobacco warehouses

Gutzloe February 9 1886 — a small

a face the republic studied while it tried to stitch itself back together

Steamboat C. Vanderbilt on the Hudson River - Vintage Maritime Print framed paratrooper and the brisk civic ambitionSteamboat C. Vanderbilt on the Hudson River Vintage Maritime Print a chromolithograph in the Currier & Ives mold, with the Commodore's namesake sidewheeler churning a wake down the Hudson, smokestacks plumed and walking beam in mid stroke. The scene belongs to that brief Gilded Age moment when river steamers were both workhorse and showpiece, and Vanderbilt's name on a hull meant something on the water. About the Source Bella Frye sources maritime