The Gothic Spires of Fifth Avenue, A Monument in Stone and Shadow arizona postcard and wheat-belt skies stretched wide

and wheat-belt skies stretched wide across every lithographed view

New Mexico arrives in adobe ochre and turquoise sky — pueblo missions baked into the mesa

the gaze middle-distance

Greetings cards from Eureka Springs and Hot Springs trade on switchback streets

Spirit of the Union 1861

The Gothic Spires of Fifth Avenue, A Monument in Stone and Shadow arizona postcard and wheat-belt skies stretched wideThe Gothic Spires of Fifth Avenue, A Monument in Stone and Shadow renders St. Patrick's twin towers in the brooding chiaroscuro of a Gilded Age plate pinnacles and flying buttresses sharpened against a leaden sky, the avenue below hushed by the cathedral's long ecclesiastical shadow. About the Source Bella Frye sources NYC artifacts from American photographic archives, postcard collections, and period broadsides the press photographers, postcard