5 Men 1916 pennsylvania card where commerce wore the face

where commerce wore the face of civic duty

and Art Deco façades that the linen-era printers rendered with almost tropical exaggeration

an engineering filing from the flannel-and-pressed-grass era when lawn tennis was still finding its footing in American garden parties

when the republic

5 Men 1916 pennsylvania card where commerce wore the face5 Men 1916 a press photograph of five figures squared to the lens on the eve of mobilization, their stillness carrying the particular weight of a republic about to be conscripted into a war it had spent three years watching from across the Atlantic. 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 publishers