The Wonderful East River Suspension Bridge Connecting the Great Cities of New York and Brooklyn 1883 Frame Style:Verdigris Frame sent when Wilmington still called

sent when Wilmington still called itself the Chemical Capital of the World

the lithographer's careful shading lending dignity to a coalition already fracturing over slavery's westward creep

The Keepers Blueprint Leading Point Light Station Plans drawn for a modest harbor sentinel where the lantern room sits squat above the keeper's quarters — one of those range lights whose whole purpose was alignment

The Manley Egg Boiler Patent a Victorian Kitchen Curiosity is the kind of curiosity that fills out a room — a small mechanical solution dignified by being drawn properly

The Wonderful East River Suspension Bridge Connecting the Great Cities of New York and Brooklyn 1883 Frame Style:Verdigris Frame sent when Wilmington still calledThe Wonderful East River Suspension Bridge Connecting the Great Cities of New York and Brooklyn 1883. A chromolithograph in love with its own engineering Roebling's cathedral of cable and granite stitched across the river the year it opened, rendered with the swagger of a metropolis convinced that steel and ambition could marry two cities into one. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of