Virginia Frame Style:Verdigris Frame A Victorian plate that treats

A Victorian plate that treats orbital resonance as scripture

Union Station's clocktower keeping time

and Fifty-ninth Street collide beneath the navigator's column

its title alone betraying the era's faith that even domestic sentiment could be mass-produced and sold by the thousand to households hungry for the trappings of refinement

with bunting and oratory

Virginia Frame Style:Verdigris Frame A Victorian plate that treatsVirginia arrives in lithographed views of Tidewater estuaries and Blue Ridge hollows, of Monticello's dome and the colonial brick of Williamsburg. The postcards trade in tobacco fields, Chesapeake skipjacks, and battlefield monuments at Manassas a commonwealth that catalogued itself in greeting cards and real photo plates with quiet, well mannered pride. About the Source Bella Frye curates American postcards from the great postcard golden age (1900s