Sky Scrapers of Philadelphia 1898 Frame Style:Bourbon Frame and the cantilevered bridges to

and the cantilevered bridges to Ontario were lithographed in saturated greens and impossible blues

Every brace and tension rod is drawn by a hand that knew the bay would test each rivet

as if he knew the whole vessel of a sailor's night depended on inches

and the slow blue haze that settles over the highlands at dusk

when the Republic had begun the slow

Sky Scrapers of Philadelphia 1898 Frame Style:Bourbon Frame and the cantilevered bridges toSky Scrapers of Philadelphia 1898. A documentary engraving of the Quaker City reaching upward at the close of the century, its new steel frame towers crowding the skyline above Broad and Market with the unembarrassed vertical ambition of American capital learning what height could mean. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies,