Russell J. Colt, 19th Century Frame Style:Verdigris Frame rendered by Smith's patient hand

rendered by Smith's patient hand as though the terminator itself were a line drawn between the known and the unknowable

A Lower East Side tableau caught between immigrant commerce and turn-of-the-century ornament

and large-letter greetings sent home between rounds of saltwater taffy and the slow turn of the Trimper carousel

The Bingham Apparatus Patent for a Gentlemans Vice reads like the instruction manual for a vanished social ritual — the pause

The Defenders of Our Union 19th Century assembles the Federal command in commemorative portraiture — Lincoln at the center of his generals

Russell J. Colt, 19th Century Frame Style:Verdigris Frame rendered by Smith's patient handRussell J. Colt, 19th Century a portrait of the Colt heir rendered in the formal idiom of Gilded Age society photography, all starched collar and inherited gravity, the kind of likeness commissioned when a surname had already become an industry. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies, and the lithographic publishers (Currier