Sky Scrapers of Philadelphia 1898 Frame Style:Bourbon Frame The Barbers Mechanical Hand Patent

The Barbers Mechanical Hand Patent Blueprint of the Cochran Shearing Clipper 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

Euclid Avenue's Millionaires' Row paraded across linen postcards

or on the wall of any kitchen where craft beer is treated with respect

The Celestial Mechanics of Light and Shadow — Part B picks up where the first plate left its geometry hanging — a Victorian study of penumbra and umbra rendered with the patience of a draftsman who believed eclipses were arguments God made in shadow

when the Republic had begun the slow

Sky Scrapers of Philadelphia 1898 Frame Style:Bourbon Frame The Barbers Mechanical Hand PatentSky 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,