The Waxing Crescent Smith's Celestial Observations Frame Style:Verdigris Frame A streetscape preserved at the

A streetscape preserved at the hour the old hotel surrendered its windows to the wreckers

The Draftsmans Midnight Companion Patent No 2543926 is a piece of living American history — an archival document transformed into a museum-quality framed print for your wall

exacting hand of a Light-House Board draftsman — every braced leg

this piece is as functional as it is decorative

and the silvering park converge in one long Manhattan exhale

The Waxing Crescent Smith's Celestial Observations Frame Style:Verdigris Frame A streetscape preserved at theThe Waxing Crescent Smith's Celestial Observations is selenography in its most devotional register a slender sickle of moon caught at the threshold of becoming, rendered by Smith's patient hand as though the terminator itself were a line drawn between the known and the unknowable. About the Source Bella Frye sources celestial prints from 19th century astronomical atlases and selenographic studies the era when astronomy was still natural philosophy,