The Fast Mail 1875 Frame Style:Bourbon Frame when the Empire State's wards

when the Empire State's wards were already rehearsing the quarrels over immigration and loyalty that would define the coming decade

The Barbers Edge Patent Blueprint of the Gentlemans Blade belongs to the era when every neighborhood had its barber and every barber had his preferences — and patents like this one were how those preferences became standard

and elevated rails converge beneath the bronze bell-ringers of Bennett's newspaper palace

Florida Key West sits at the ragged southern tip of the Overseas Highway

The Fast Mail 1875 Frame Style:Bourbon Frame when the Empire State's wardsThe Fast Mail 1875 a chromolithograph of locomotion at full throttle, smoke streaming sideways as the mail car barrels through the night, rendered in the muscular optimism of a republic stitching itself back together one rail tie and postal route at a time. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies, and the lithographic