Massachusetts Cape Cod NRG_Stadium_Art Bedloe's Island

Bedloe's Island

The street unfurls in the gaslit clamor of haberdashers and theater-goers

The scene carries the bravado of a wartime recruiting plate

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

Massachusetts Cape Cod NRG_Stadium_Art Bedloe's IslandMassachusetts Cape Cod arrives salt bitten and sun bleached, a curl of sand bent into the Atlantic where lighthouses keep their long vigils and weathered shingles silver in the wind. These postcards trade in dune grass and dory boats, in the cranberry bogs and clapboard inns that defined the Cape long before the bridges arrived. About the Source Bella Frye curates American postcards from the great postcard golden age (1900s 1930s) greetings cards,