The Old Man Of Cape Flattery Washington smiths astronomy Andrew Johnson and Others

Andrew Johnson and Others

These postcards remember a city built on tobacco warehouses

The Vanderbilt Hotel Gilded Age Manhattan Architecture Print renders the Park Avenue tower commissioned by Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt himself — a 1912 monument to Beaux-Arts ambition where terra-cotta arches and Guastavino tile vaults announced that the family's empire had migrated upward into the Manhattan skyline

their summits doubled in the glassy stillness of a high mountain lake

The Old Man Of Cape Flattery Washington smiths astronomy Andrew Johnson and OthersThe Old Man Of Cape Flattery Washington arrives where the continent runs out Pacific swells gnawing at sandstone headlands, sea caves echoing beneath the Olympic Peninsula's northwesternmost point, and Tatoosh Light blinking through Strait of Juan de Fuca fog. The weathered rock face that names this place keeps its seaward vigil across linen and real photo postcards from the early century era. About the Source Bella Frye curates American postcards