Steel Cathedral Dreams: Manhattan's Art Deco Ascension Frame Style:Ebony Frame charting the precise geometry of

charting the precise geometry of shadow as it spilled into craters no Victorian eye had yet named

These linen postcards trade in eternal afternoons

The Cobin Hitt Cooling Apparatus Patent Print is a drawing from the era when American brewing was a serious industrial science — pumps

and rain-slick pavement glowing under the incandescent canopy that earned Forty-Second Street its luminous nickname

where the Labrador and Gulf Stream collide over the bone-yard of the Outer Banks

Steel Cathedral Dreams: Manhattan's Art Deco Ascension Frame Style:Ebony Frame charting the precise geometry ofSteel Cathedral Dreams: Manhattan's Art Deco Ascension an architectural rendering that worships the setback skyscraper as the twentieth century's true cathedral, all riveted spires and zigzag crowns reaching skyward in the manner the Chrysler and Empire State taught a generation of draftsmen to draw. About the Source Bella Frye sources NYC artifacts from American photographic archives, postcard collections, and period broadsides the press