Streamlined Ferry 'Kalakala Frame Style:Bourbon Frame as if the photographer asked

as if the photographer asked him

all soaring halls and machine-age optimism rendered in the confident strokes of a South still scrubbing off the soot of war and reaching

the opening land action of an empire announcing itself in tropical heat

and real-photo postcards of sod-house homesteads holding their ground against a horizon that refuses to end

The engraving carries the salt and powder of a January night when the blockade finally closed for good

Streamlined Ferry 'Kalakala Frame Style:Bourbon Frame as if the photographer askedStreamlined Ferry 'Kalakala arrives in a gleam of silver Art Deco curves gliding across Puget Sound, her aluminum hull catching the gray Seattle light as gulls wheel above the wake and the Olympics rise blue beyond the world's first streamlined ferry cataloged in linen postcards from the moderne age, when machine age optimism crossed the water at fifteen knots. About the Source Bella Frye curates American postcards from the great postcard golden age