Wisconsin Madison framed pipe lover the spires of Trinity and

the spires of Trinity and the early towers of Wall Street rising behind like the counting-house cathedrals of a republic still tallying its fortune

its lantern room perched eighty-nine feet above the surge

unbarbered gravity of a man who insisted democracy could be sung

The Gentlemans Vice Patent Drawing for Hands Free Cigar Apparatus captures the gentleman's vice at its most engineered — the holders

The document reads less like law than like a sentence pronounced over four million lives

Wisconsin Madison framed pipe lover the spires of Trinity andWisconsin Madison sits on its isthmus between Mendota and Monona, the Capitol dome rising like a smaller cousin of Washington's over a city of lake steamers and university quadrangles a postcard town where lithographed views of State Street and linen cards of the Memorial Union terrace did steady work through the golden age. About the Source Bella Frye curates American postcards from the great postcard golden age (1900s 1930s) greetings cards, large