Metropolitan Center Seattle Washington Frame Style:Verdigris Frame The Union Must Be Preserved

The Union Must Be Preserved 1839 yokes the founding clarion to a Jacksonian-era vow

rendered in the sober line-work of a century that preferred its founders edited into marble

the republic looking backward to steady itself

gathering the great faces of a hundred years into one tableau where Webster might lock eyes with Lincoln and Clay shares his margin with Grant

Metropolitan Center Seattle Washington Frame Style:Verdigris Frame The Union Must Be PreservedMetropolitan Center Seattle Washington arrives in a downtown rising from regraded hills terra cotta facades catching afternoon light, streetcars threading between department stores and brick hotels, and crowds in wool coats moving past plate glass windows along Second Avenue. A boomtown of commerce and ambition cataloged in linen and real photo postcards from the early decades of the century. About the Source Bella Frye curates American postcards from