Arizona Grand Canyon Framed_Espresso every plate

every plate

Spanish American Soldiers and Flags 1898 — a martial tableau from the year empire announced itself in Cuban heat and Manila harbor

the kind of civic chromolithograph parlors hung as a quiet catechism of the republic — twenty-three faces

The Destruction Island Beacon Engineering Drawings for a Sentinel of the Shipwreck Coast reads like a draftsman's reckoning with the Olympic fog — a squat masonry tower drawn against the basalt of a Washington sea-stack

Family Picture for the Million

Arizona Grand Canyon Framed_Espresso every plateArizona Grand Canyon arrives in linen and lithograph sunset stained chasms, mule trains on the Bright Angel Trail, and El Tovar perched at the rim like a Swiss chalet stranded in red rock country. The postcard artists worked overtime here, tinting the Colorado River impossible greens and the canyon walls every shade of fire. About the Source Bella Frye curates American postcards from the great postcard golden age (1900s 1930s) greetings cards, large