Minnesota Southern Frame Style:Ebony Frame The Coopers Secret Patent Blueprint

The Coopers Secret Patent Blueprint of the Forgotten Barrel Shield comes from an era when the distiller was half-engineer

Robert Montgomery Bird 19th Century — a portrait of the Philadelphia physician-turned-playwright whose Jacksonian-era dramas and frontier novels gave the antebellum stage its taste for blood

and the kind of drinker who reads the back of the label

or a kitchen where the shaker is always within reach

23rd Street — a vintage Manhattan tableau lingering at the crossroads where Broadway grazes the Flatiron's prow

Minnesota Southern Frame Style:Ebony Frame The Coopers Secret Patent BlueprintMinnesota Southern gathers the quiet country below the Twin Cities bluff towns along the Mississippi, Rochester's clinic spires, and the patchwork farmland where Norwegian and German settlers raised their courthouses and creameries. The postcards favor red barns at harvest, limestone main streets, and river bends rendered in soft linen ink. About the Source Bella Frye curates American postcards from the great postcard golden age (1900s 1930s)