Bombardment of San Juan, Puerto Rico, 1898 Frame Style:Canvas Wrap A retrospective lithograph of Sherman's

A retrospective lithograph of Sherman's opening blow into Georgia

this chromolithograph reanimates the Genoese mariner for a Chicago crowd hungry to crown four centuries of conquest with white-plaster pavilions and electric light — the Admiral repackaged as the patron saint of American arrival

Ann Eliza Young

A campaign portrait dressed in the rhetoric of liberty — though the freedom it championed wore expansionist boots

Bombardment of San Juan, Puerto Rico, 1898 Frame Style:Canvas Wrap A retrospective lithograph of Sherman'sBombardment of San Juan, Puerto Rico, 1898 renders the morning Admiral Sampson's squadron threw shellfire at the Spanish harbor fortifications a documentary engraving of empire announcing itself in cordite, the old colonial citadel framed by the smoke of a republic newly comfortable with overseas guns. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional