Natasha Trethewey's poem recounts that the moon landing and all its promise did not erase strife
built up and photographed more than any city in the world
"The most disastrous decline in the biggest and broadest stock market of history rocked the financial district yesterday
Artist Tucker Nichols’s illustration
and the squid-ink East River
Queen Mary Launched Size:20" x 25" Natasha Trethewey's poem recounts thatOnlookers tip their hats and wave as the mighty R. M. S. Queen Mary is launched in the rain at John Brown & Company shipyard in Clydebank, Scotland, September 26, 1934. The ocean liner had been known as only "534" when it was being built, but it was renamed on the day of the launch before a crowd of 250,000. The ship was the mightiest vessel that man, more than 1,000 feet long, with 12 decks and a lavish Art Deco interior. Its launching was broadcast