The New Cathedral, Fifth Avenue, New York, 19th Century Frame Style:Bourbon Frame the kind of civic chromolithograph

the kind of civic chromolithograph parlors hung as a quiet catechism of the republic — twenty-three faces

the bathers in wool stockings — Old Orchard Beach was New England's seaside carnival

and the long white sweep of the world's longest man-made beach — a coast where lighthouses kept watch over magnolia-shaded boulevards and the Biloxi Bay bridge stretched toward Ocean Springs in lithographed twilight

rendered by Smith's patient hand as though the terminator itself were a line drawn between the known and the unknowable

Prang) who documented the republic from its founding through the early twentieth century

The New Cathedral, Fifth Avenue, New York, 19th Century Frame Style:Bourbon Frame the kind of civic chromolithographThe New Cathedral, Fifth Avenue, New York, 19th Century a documentary engraving of St. Patrick's rising in Gothic ambition along the avenue of new fortunes, its spires drawn with the same confidence the city used to announce that American wealth had finally learned to build in stone. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies,