Portrait of Admiral Dewey Commemorating His Arrival in New York, September 1899 old New York print that these faces belonged at

that these faces belonged at the center of the republic's story

These are buckeye-country greetings — Main Streets paved between cornfield and foundry

with a single broadside

its braced iron legs drafted with the quiet confidence of engineers who knew that mud

the Casino arcade

Portrait of Admiral Dewey Commemorating His Arrival in New York, September 1899 old New York print that these faces belonged atPortrait of Admiral Dewey Commemorating His Arrival in New York, September 1899 the hero of Manila Bay rendered in commemorative gravity, his return to the harbor staged as the republic's first imperial homecoming, smokestack diplomacy made flesh in epaulets and braid. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies, and the