South Carolina Columbia old wisconsin print where the timetable replaced the

where the timetable replaced the liturgy and every arriving train was a small act of faith

the chair was a throne

when the sobriquet was still fresh on Confederate tongues and the Virginia general's stone-still brigade had become the Republic's first hard lesson that the war would be neither short nor bloodless

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

South Carolina Columbia old wisconsin print where the timetable replaced theSouth Carolina Columbia arrives by way of the Congaree, where the statehouse dome catches Carolina light and Main Street stretches in lithographed calm past Trinity's spires and the long colonnades of the university. These are linen views of a capital rebuilt from Sherman's ashes magnolia shaded, palmetto flanked, and quietly proud of it. About the Source Bella Frye curates American postcards from the great postcard golden age (1900s 1930s) greetings