Lake Washingtonpontoon Bridge Seattle Washington Framed_Ravens_Poster Bella Frye sources NYC artifacts

Bella Frye sources NYC artifacts from American photographic archives

a republic newly flush with overseas territories listening upward

the river running wide and gray — come cataloged in linen postcards from the auto-touring heyday of the 1930s

drawn for a Northern public hungry to see the West won in ink

Lake Washingtonpontoon Bridge Seattle Washington Framed_Ravens_Poster Bella Frye sources NYC artifactsLake Washington Pontoon Bridge Seattle Washington arrives in concrete ribbons floating low across the water, automobiles streaming toward Mercer Island as sailboats lean past the floating spans and the Cascades blue the far horizon. An engineering marvel of its day the world's first such bridge cataloged in linen postcards from the age of the open road. About the Source Bella Frye curates American postcards from the great postcard golden age (1900s