Benjamin Franklin Printer Philadelphia 1914 framed tobacco art the kind of plate that

the kind of plate that once made Victorian astronomers feel they were reading God's own marginalia

These are postcards written from a city built to be photographed

The Keepers Tower at Worlds Edge reads like a draftsman's reckoning with the end of the map — a masonry sentinel braced against the long Atlantic

arranging the first ten executives in lithographed council

Benjamin Franklin Printer Philadelphia 1914 framed tobacco art the kind of plate thatBenjamin Franklin Printer Philadelphia 1914 a commemorative likeness honoring Franklin not as statesman or sage but as the ink stained tradesman who set type along Market Street, issued in the bicentennial mood of a republic about to discover what world war required of its founders' inheritance. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical