Battle of Manila Bay 1898 Frame Style:Canvas Wrap The ground is mapped with

The ground is mapped with the cold clarity of hindsight

Equality for All Men Before the Law 1877 — a chromolithograph issued in the very year federal troops withdrew from the South

the year inked beneath him like a small claim against forgetting

the Equitable Building's early skyline

Battle of Manila Bay 1898 Frame Style:Canvas Wrap The ground is mapped withBattle of Manila Bay 1898 Dewey's squadron rendered in the confident line of a navy press lithograph, smoke rising from Spanish hulls in the harbor where an old empire surrendered the Pacific before breakfast. The image carries the swagger of a republic discovering it could project power across an ocean. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional