George Dewey 1899 Victoria_BC_Print The Barbers Summons — Patent

The Barbers Summons — Patent Drawing of a Victorian Razor Stand and Service Bell reads as a study in restraint — the close

Issued in the long aftermath of emancipation

the ink still warm with April's wound

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

when the city's masons were still translating grief into civic stone and the dead into allegorical figures

George Dewey 1899 Victoria_BC_Print The Barbers Summons — PatentGeorge 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