The Fast Mail 1875 Frame Style:Bourbon Frame Georgia Atlanta rises in linen

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

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

The Capitol at Washington 1851 — a documentary engraving of the federal seat in the very year Congress authorized its great expansion

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

Florida Key West sits at the ragged southern tip of the Overseas Highway

The Fast Mail 1875 Frame Style:Bourbon Frame Georgia Atlanta rises in linenThe 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