Clipper Ship Sovereign of the Seas - Currier Lithograph - Vintage Maritime Print Size:18x24 1838 catches the future president

1838 catches the future president mid-ascent

The Sickenberger Device Patent for the Gentlemans Vice is a drawing from the long American romance with tobacco — when a pipe

A portrait of the Tennessee Whig at the moment William Henry Harrison's cabinet briefly seated him atop the War Department — a tenure measured in weeks before Tyler's apostasy scattered the appointees

Cracker Jack Ty Cobb — a 1914 candy-issue card pulled from a sticky box of caramel corn

Clipper Ship Sovereign of the Seas - Currier Lithograph - Vintage Maritime Print Size:18x24 1838 catches the future presidentClipper Ship Sovereign of the Seas Currier Lithograph Vintage Maritime Print Donald McKay's leviathan crashes through the North Atlantic under a press of canvas so vast it seems to swallow the wind itself, immortalized by Currier in the brief, blazing decade when American clippers ruled the tea routes and made even steam look slow. About the Source Bella Frye sources maritime illustrations from American archives and 19th century lithographic