Ohio Cleveland Frame Style:Ebony Frame Cliff House surf

Cliff House surf

The Kampfe Brothers Razor Brace Patent — Instruments of the Morning Ritual is a small monument to the morning ritual — the kind of drawing that hung in apprentice manuals when barbering was a guild and a calling

and cooling coils designed by men who understood that beer is mostly a problem of temperature

and the smaller regional houses that documented every Main Street

The Gentlemans Vice Patent 1193593 belongs to the smokehouse era of design — when the act of lighting a cigar carried enough cultural weight to justify a patent application and a draftsman's afternoon

Ohio Cleveland Frame Style:Ebony Frame Cliff House surfOhio Cleveland rises off the Cuyahoga in lithographed views of smokestacks and steamers, Euclid Avenue's Millionaires' Row paraded across linen postcards, and the great arcade glinting under gaslight a Forest City rendered when iron ore from the lakes still met Pennsylvania coal at the harbor mouth. About the Source Bella Frye curates American postcards from the great postcard golden age (1900s 1930s) greetings cards, large letter cards, real photo