Courtenay & Hanlan, Champion Scullers of America, View of Toronto Bay 1879 Ford_Field_Drawing Attack of the Gun Boats

Attack of the Gun Boats on San Juan de Ulloa - Vintage Maritime Print renders the 1838 Pastry War in full chromolithographic fury — French gunboats wreathed in smoke

and large-letter greetings sent home between rounds of saltwater taffy and the slow turn of the Trimper carousel

A signer of the Declaration rendered here in the full ceremony of his Bay State governorship — the engraving styling him with that antique honorific 'Governour

where ellipses became scripture and the heavens kept time like a watchmaker's prayer

Courtenay & Hanlan, Champion Scullers of America, View of Toronto Bay 1879 Ford_Field_Drawing Attack of the Gun BoatsCourtenay & Hanlan, Champion Scullers of America, View of Toronto Bay 1879. A regatta lithograph from the heyday of competitive sculling, when Ned Hanlan's stroke could empty a city and Toronto Bay glittered with the wagers of two nations watching their oarsmen as carefully as their generals. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical