The Fast Mail 1875 Frame Style:Bourbon Frame The portrait belongs to that

The portrait belongs to that long aftermath

and elevated rails converge beneath the bronze bell-ringers of Bennett's newspaper palace

Georgia Atlanta rises in linen and lithograph as the phoenix city — Peachtree Street stretching past the Candler Building

when the Empire State's wards were already rehearsing the quarrels over immigration and loyalty that would define the coming decade

taking its place beside the Herschelian Uranus like a newcomer ushered into a cathedral

The Fast Mail 1875 Frame Style:Bourbon Frame The portrait belongs to thatThe Fast Mail 1875 a chromolithograph of locomotion at full throttle, smoke streaming sideways as the mail car barrels through the night, rendered in the muscular optimism of a republic stitching itself back together one rail tie and postal route at a time. 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