John Paul Jones, Classis Praefecto, 1747-1792 Size:24x36 the spiral stair and lantern-room

the spiral stair and lantern-room geometry drawn with the gravity of men who knew exactly what the sea had already taken

the brass of his epaulets rendered with the deliberate flattery of antebellum portraiture

Harriet Beecher Stowe 1852 — the year Uncle Tom's Cabin left the printing press and entered the bloodstream of a divided republic

where blue-coated men posed against the Tennessee River's sweep — the camera catching soldiers who would soon march into the smoke at Missionary Ridge

John Paul Jones, Classis Praefecto, 1747-1792 Size:24x36 the spiral stair and lantern-roomJohn Paul Jones, Classis Praefecto, 1747 1792. An engraved tribute to the Scottish born commodore styled in Latin as fleet commander, his likeness fixed between the years that bracket a life spent harrying the Royal Navy in its own waters and proving an upstart republic could fight at sea. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical