The Gilded Balconies of Mott Street Frame Style:Verdigris Frame and Beacon Hill's gas lamps

and Beacon Hill's gas lamps glow on linen stock pressed when the harbor still smelled of molasses and tea

The Gentlemans Vice Patent Blueprint of Refined Indulgence is a drawing from the long American romance with tobacco — when a pipe

breathing lung

Shake up your space with classic charm and a splash of style

and other documents from the Bella Frye Maritime & Light Stations collection

The Gilded Balconies of Mott Street Frame Style:Verdigris Frame and Beacon Hill's gas lampsThe Gilded Balconies of Mott Street looks down the spine of Chinatown's busiest artery, where wrought iron fire escapes stack tenement facades like opera tiers above the awnings and hand lettered signs. A Lower East Side tableau caught between immigrant commerce and turn of the century ornament. About the Source Bella Frye sources NYC artifacts from American photographic archives, postcard collections, and period broadsides the press photographers,