Arizona Phoenix Size:24x18 The Celestial Order Smith's Solar

The Celestial Order Smith's Solar System With Leverrier Herschel — Asa Smith's mid-century plate convenes the solar family in solemn procession

George Sound meets the Gulf — every iron pile

where wrought-iron fire escapes stack tenement facades like opera tiers above the awnings and hand-lettered signs

smoke-like spirals and gem-strewn clusters that haunted the great reflectors of the 1800s — Lord Rosse's leviathan among them — into a single contemplative plate

The Huddled Masses of Mulberry Bend — a Jacob Riis-era tableau of the Five Points' most notorious crook

Arizona Phoenix Size:24x18 The Celestial Order Smith's SolarArizona Phoenix rises from the Salt River Valley in lithographed views of citrus groves and saguaro horizons, where adobe missions and the white arcades of the Hotel San Carlos trade postcard space with desert sunsets the color of struck flint. A linen era city stitched together by irrigation canals and the slow, deliberate ambition of the Sonoran sun. About the Source Bella Frye curates American postcards from the great postcard golden age (1900s