Wisconsin Madison framed pipe lover The Gentlemans Vice Patent Drawing

The Gentlemans Vice Patent Drawing for Hands Free Cigar Apparatus captures the gentleman's vice at its most engineered — the holders

where the draftsman's lines trace the cylindrical shell and lantern-room geometry of a sentinel built to weather hurricanes no keeper could outrun

and the swagger of a republic newly fond of its own reach

glass enthusiasts

Wisconsin Madison framed pipe lover The Gentlemans Vice Patent DrawingWisconsin Madison sits on its isthmus between Mendota and Monona, the Capitol dome rising like a smaller cousin of Washington's over a city of lake steamers and university quadrangles a postcard town where lithographed views of State Street and linen cards of the Memorial Union terrace did steady work through the golden age. About the Source Bella Frye curates American postcards from the great postcard golden age (1900s 1930s) greetings cards, large