The New Cathedral, Fifth Avenue, New York, 19th Century Frame Style:Bourbon Frame rendered by Smith's patient hand

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

The Centennial of Our Republic 1876 — a commemorative chromolithograph marking the hundredth year since Independence

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

It is geometry pressed into liturgy

The New Cathedral, Fifth Avenue, New York, 19th Century Frame Style:Bourbon Frame rendered by Smith's patient handThe 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,