California Southern Frame Style:Bourbon Frame The Barbers Contraption — Patent

The Barbers Contraption — Patent for Human Grooming 1871 is a small monument to the morning ritual — the kind of drawing that hung in apprentice manuals when barbering was a guild and a calling

The Morning Ritual Blueprint is a piece of living American history — an archival document transformed into a museum-quality framed print for your wall

where the Labrador current collides with the Gulf Stream and shipwrecks accumulate like sediment

Design for Phaeton (unnumbered) is a piece of living American history — an archival document transformed into a museum-quality framed print for your wall

California Southern Frame Style:Bourbon Frame The Barbers Contraption — PatentCalifornia Southern arrives sun bleached and palm fringed orange groves stretching toward the San Gabriels, mission arcades cooling in adobe shadow, and the Pacific breaking white along Santa Monica's pier. These linen postcards trade in eternal afternoons, when Pasadena rose gardens and Hollywood Boulevard marquees were still the stuff of mailed wonder. About the Source Bella Frye curates American postcards from the great postcard golden age (1900s