23rd Street framed Panama map The Publicans Precision Cornelius Beer

The Publicans Precision Cornelius Beer Tap Patent is a drawing from the era when American brewing was a serious industrial science — pumps

Each plate burns at the seam where heliography met natural theology — the firmament as furnace

A Queen City in greeting-card script

The Iron Sentinel of Southwest Pass — a screw-pile skeleton driven into the soft Mississippi delta where the river bleeds into the Gulf

23rd Street framed Panama map The Publicans Precision Cornelius Beer23rd Street a vintage Manhattan tableau lingering at the crossroads where Broadway grazes the Flatiron's prow, that splendid wedge of Gilded Age commerce. The street unfurls in the gaslit clamor of haberdashers and theater goers, the Ladies' Mile humming just north of the frame. About the Source Bella Frye sources NYC artifacts from American photographic archives, postcard collections, and period broadsides the press photographers, postcard