New Jersey Asbury Park framed telephone Pennsylvania Pittsburgh arrives smelling faintly

Pennsylvania Pittsburgh arrives smelling faintly of coke smoke and river water — linen postcards of the Point where the Allegheny meets the Monongahela

The Bertelli Apparatus Patent for Effervescence reads like the working memory of a Victorian brewery — the apparatus that moved

to be seen

are less observed than catechized

the careworn face that bore Antietam and Gettysburg softened here by the parlor's quieter gravity

New Jersey Asbury Park framed telephone Pennsylvania Pittsburgh arrives smelling faintlyNew Jersey Asbury Park arrives with the salt bleached glamour of the Jersey Shore in full swing linen postcards of the Convention Hall, the Casino arcade, and the boardwalk stretching past Palace Amusements, where ocean breezes once carried the calliope's tune toward Wesley Lake. About the Source Bella Frye curates American postcards from the great postcard golden age (1900s 1930s) greetings cards, large letter cards, real photo postcards, and linen