Missouri St Louis maine postcard 1849 — a Senate portrait

1849 — a Senate portrait of Alexander Mouton at the close of his term

The plate reads less like an astronomical lithograph than a confession

The Danziger Cigarette Patent of 1865 is a drawing from the long American romance with tobacco — when a pipe

Presidential Inauguration 1881

The Keepers Blueprint Chesapeake Bay Lighthouse Engineering Study reads like a draftsman's quiet reckoning with the Chesapeake's shallow

Missouri St Louis maine postcard 1849 — a Senate portraitMissouri St Louis rises in these postcards beneath the silver curve of the Mississippi Eads Bridge stitched across the water, Union Station's clocktower keeping time, and the breweries along Pestalozzi Street smoking through the river haze of a city that once called itself the Gateway. About the Source Bella Frye curates American postcards from the great postcard golden age (1900s 1930s) greetings cards, large letter cards, real photo postcards, and