Streamlined Ferry 'Kalakala Frame Style:Verdigris Frame stitched together in spun steel

stitched together in spun steel

leather wraps

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

Missionary Ridge breaking under Union assault

Streamlined Ferry 'Kalakala Frame Style:Verdigris Frame stitched together in spun steelStreamlined 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