Steamboat C. Vanderbilt on the Hudson River - Vintage Maritime Print Gift_for_Geology where ellipses became scripture and

where ellipses became scripture and the heavens kept time like a watchmaker's prayer

devised when the parlor and the ballfield alike demanded an honest tally

in an age already retreating from Reconstruction's promises

claiming Alta California for a republic still mid-stride in its westward appetite

Steamboat C. Vanderbilt on the Hudson River - Vintage Maritime Print Gift_for_Geology where ellipses became scripture andSteamboat C. Vanderbilt on the Hudson River Vintage Maritime Print a chromolithograph in the Currier & Ives mold, with the Commodore's namesake sidewheeler churning a wake down the Hudson, smokestacks plumed and walking beam in mid stroke. The scene belongs to that brief Gilded Age moment when river steamers were both workhorse and showpiece, and Vanderbilt's name on a hull meant something on the water. About the Source Bella Frye sources maritime