Virginia Frame Style:Verdigris Frame Coast Guard

Coast Guard

Capital Bird's Eye View Vintage Art from Bella Frye

the silver hull tethered against a city of lit windows

Times Square humming under hand-tinted neon

an ecclesiastical genealogy issued in the year Brigham Young's Utah was still negotiating its place inside a federal republic uneasy with its prophets

Virginia Frame Style:Verdigris Frame Coast GuardVirginia arrives in lithographed views of Tidewater estuaries and Blue Ridge hollows, of Monticello's dome and the colonial brick of Williamsburg. The postcards trade in tobacco fields, Chesapeake skipjacks, and battlefield monuments at Manassas a commonwealth that catalogued itself in greeting cards and real photo plates with quiet, well mannered pride. About the Source Bella Frye curates American postcards from the great postcard golden age (1900s