Arkansas Ozarks Size:36x24 and ventilator ball are drawn

and ventilator ball are drawn in the patient hand of a draftsman charting the small architecture standing between a keeper and the dark

every scene softened by the slow

exact engineering of a tool that lived its whole life in the hand of someone who knew exactly how to hold it

his shoulder straps speaking the language of a republic that promoted its politicians into uniform

and other documents from the Bella Frye Maritime & Light Stations collection

Arkansas Ozarks Size:36x24 and ventilator ball are drawnArkansas Ozarks arrives in linen postcards and lithographed views of bluff cut hollows, hand cranked grist mills, and the Buffalo River winding past dogwood and limestone. Greetings cards from Eureka Springs and Hot Springs trade on switchback streets, hillside hotels, and the slow blue haze that settles over the highlands at dusk. About the Source Bella Frye curates American postcards from the great postcard golden age (1900s 1930s) greetings cards,