The Gothic Spires of Fifth Avenue, A Monument in Stone and Shadow arizona postcard The portrait carries the weariness

The portrait carries the weariness of a soldier turned statesman turned author

West Virginia — a postcard collection cut from coal seams and Allegheny hollows

and wheat-belt skies stretched wide across every lithographed view

Spirit of the Union 1861

Battle of the Thames

The Gothic Spires of Fifth Avenue, A Monument in Stone and Shadow arizona postcard The portrait carries the wearinessThe 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