Around the Globe with the United States Atlantic Fleet - Vintage Maritime Print Frame Style:Ebony Frame The Celestial Order Smith's Solar

The Celestial Order Smith's Solar System With Leverrier Herschel — Asa Smith's mid-century plate convenes the solar family in solemn procession

A centennial chromolithograph staged at dawn

as if greatness could be cataloged like specimens under glass

and the swagger of a republic newly fond of its own reach

and squeezers that turned the Gilded Age cocktail into a small piece of theater

Around the Globe with the United States Atlantic Fleet - Vintage Maritime Print Frame Style:Ebony Frame The Celestial Order Smith's SolarAround the Globe with the United States Atlantic Fleet Vintage Maritime Print chronicles Roosevelt's Great White Fleet on its 1907 world cruise sixteen battleships rendered hull to hull in a chromolithograph that swells with the bravado of a young empire announcing itself by smokestack and signal flag. The Atlantic stretches behind them like a stage curtain, every funnel plume a punctuation mark in America's loudest diplomatic sentence. About the