Streamlined Ferry 'Kalakala Frame Style:Verdigris Frame every bolt threaded into Chesapeake

every bolt threaded into Chesapeake mud is rendered with the patience of a draftsman who knew this little red drum had to outlast the river itself

fixing the moment a Massachusetts officer fell at Buena Vista

his jaw set with the particular menace of a man who slid into bases as if they owed him money

The engraver renders him in the stern collar and steady gaze of a clergyman who counted Lincoln among his correspondents

Streamlined Ferry 'Kalakala Frame Style:Verdigris Frame every bolt threaded into ChesapeakeStreamlined Ferry 'Kalakala arrives in a gleam of silver Art Deco curves gliding across Puget Sound, her aluminum hull catching the gray Seattle light as gulls wheel above the wake and the Olympics rise blue beyond the world's first streamlined ferry cataloged in linen postcards from the moderne age, when machine age optimism crossed the water at fifteen knots. About the Source Bella Frye curates American postcards from the great postcard golden age