Pennsylvania Philadelphia Frame Style:Canvas Wrap The Waxing Crescent Smith's Celestial

The Waxing Crescent Smith's Celestial Observations is selenography in its most devotional register — a slender sickle of moon caught at the threshold of becoming

Stonewall Jackson 1877 — a posthumous likeness issued more than a decade after Chancellorsky's woods claimed him

when the republic counted its assassinations and found

a fixed address

hats clamped against the famous downdraft

Pennsylvania Philadelphia Frame Style:Canvas Wrap The Waxing Crescent Smith's CelestialPennsylvania Philadelphia arrives by way of cobblestone and cracked bell lithographed views of Independence Hall, Boathouse Row strung along the Schuylkill, and the brick canyons of Market Street where penny postcards once moved faster than the trolleys. A city of founders and rowing crews, rendered in ink the color of old parchment. About the Source Bella Frye curates American postcards from the great postcard golden age (1900s 1930s) greetings