Chicago 1871 historic canvas each planetary orbit traced in

each planetary orbit traced in concentric gold as though the firmament itself were a pocket-watch laid open

the long shadow of the war still cooling behind them

The Croce Atomizer Patent — a Study in Vapor and Vanity is a small monument to the morning ritual — the kind of drawing that hung in apprentice manuals when barbering was a guild and a calling

Pairs naturally with lighthouse engineering drawings

when the question of whether a republic could legislate thirst was still very much open

Chicago 1871 historic canvas each planetary orbit traced inChicago 1871 a document of the year the city burned, when the lake wind carried embers across wooden boulevards and three hundred souls were lost to a fire that began, so legend insisted, in a barn on DeKoven Street. The image belongs to the smoldering ledger of an American metropolis learning to rebuild in brick and iron. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National