Virginia Frame Style:Verdigris Frame when Pasadena rose gardens and

when Pasadena rose gardens and Hollywood Boulevard marquees were still the stuff of mailed wonder

The schematic charts the caisson pier

Coast Guard

Times Square humming under hand-tinted neon

The Celestial Sphere Its Earthly Boundaries draws the line where mortal cartography surrenders to the firmament — horizon

Virginia Frame Style:Verdigris Frame when Pasadena rose gardens andVirginia arrives in lithographed views of Tidewater estuaries and Blue Ridge hollows, of Monticello's dome and the colonial brick of Williamsburg. The postcards trade in tobacco fields, Chesapeake skipjacks, and battlefield monuments at Manassas a commonwealth that catalogued itself in greeting cards and real photo plates with quiet, well mannered pride. About the Source Bella Frye curates American postcards from the great postcard golden age (1900s