Outward Bound - Clipper Ship Under Full Sail - Vintage Maritime Print great lakes art Pictorial History of the United

Pictorial History of the United States 1846 arrives at the high tide of Manifest Destiny

General Taylor at the Battle of Palo Alto

The year places it squarely in the long shadow after the war

its grid of streets and steeples drawn with the patient optimism of a port learning to face forward

Outward Bound - Clipper Ship Under Full Sail - Vintage Maritime Print great lakes art Pictorial History of the UnitedOutward Bound Clipper Ship Under Full Sail Vintage Maritime Print a chromolithograph from the heyday of American sail, when extreme clippers raced tea and gold seekers across oceans on canvas pyramids that dwarfed their hulls. Every studding sail and skysail is set to the breeze, the print rendered by a hand that understood a ship leaves harbor not by engine or oar, but by the patient mathematics of wind and rigging. About the Source Bella Frye