Kansas Wichita framed telephone the lithographer's hand steadied by

the lithographer's hand steadied by the civic obligation to render a martyred president with the dignity the wound itself denied him

shore dinners

a curiosity cabinet

optical phantoms and refracted moons are diagrammed with the solemnity of heresy

Kansas Wichita framed telephone the lithographer's hand steadied byKansas Wichita rises from the Arkansas River bend where cattle drives once met the rails a Cowtown turned Air Capital, its postcards trading longhorn dust for the gleam of Stearman biplanes, grain elevators standing sentinel over Douglas Avenue, and wheat belt skies stretched wide across every lithographed view. About the Source Bella Frye curates American postcards from the great postcard golden age (1900s 1930s) greetings cards, large letter cards,