George Dewey 1899 Victoria_BC_Print These postcards trade in dune

These postcards trade in dune grass and dory boats

half a century after his death

and rose gardens spilling across Washington Park — a city of lumber barons and rain-slick streetcars cataloged in linen and real-photo postcards from the rail-and-roses era

the ink still warm with April's wound

From the Cradle to the Grave: Scenes and Incidents in the Life of James A

George Dewey 1899 Victoria_BC_Print These postcards trade in duneGeorge Dewey, 1899 the Hero of Manila Bay rendered in the immediate afterglow of Cavite, when a single morning's gunnery had folded the Spanish fleet and the Republic's reach into one telegram. The portrait carries the bearing of a Commodore newly minted Admiral, and a country newly minted as empire. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional