Steamboats Passing at Midnight on Long Island Sound - Vintage Maritime Print Size:24x36 1847 — a campaign lithograph

1847 — a campaign lithograph rendered in the swaggering grammar of Manifest Destiny

Imposing the Cardinal's Berretta Upon His Grace Archbishop McCloskey of New York

a founder transmuted by the burin into national memory

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Steamboats Passing at Midnight on Long Island Sound - Vintage Maritime Print Size:24x36 1847 — a campaign lithographSteamboats Passing at Midnight on Long Island Sound Vintage Maritime Print a chromolithograph drunk on lamplight and coal smoke, where two paddlewheel giants slip past one another on the black glass of the Sound, their saloon windows burning gold against a sky the color of wet ink. The kind of Gilded Age scene that turned the night run between New York and Stonington into a floating cathedral. About the Source Bella Frye sources maritime illustrations