The Summer Sky Atlas — A Victorian Map of Celestial Wanderings framed minimalist Real-photo views of stagecoach roads

Real-photo views of stagecoach roads and the Ahwahnee linger in the stack like souvenirs from a pilgrimage

The Celestial Machinery — Reynolds' Transparent Solar System is exactly what its name promises: Reynolds peeled back the firmament like the lid of a music box

The Singeing Apparatus of Poindexter Victorian Hair Burning Device Patent comes from the great age of the American barbershop — when a shave was a ritual

The Keepers Vigil Matinicus Rock Lighthouse Architectural Blueprint charts the twin granite towers that once held vigil over twenty-two miles of open Atlantic off the Maine coast — a station so brutally exposed that its keepers measured winters in stranded weeks

Pairs naturally with other documents from the Bella Frye Curious pillar — celestial atlases

The Summer Sky Atlas — A Victorian Map of Celestial Wanderings framed minimalist Real-photo views of stagecoach roadsThe Summer Sky Atlas a Victorian Map of Celestial Wanderings charts the warm month constellations as a 19th century stargazer would have traced them Lyra, Cygnus, and Aquila wheeling across the firmament in inked latitudes. It is less a map than an ephemeris of longing, the summer heavens pinned like specimens to the page. About the Source Bella Frye sources celestial prints from 19th century astronomical atlases and selenographic studies the era when