Wisconsin Madison framed pipe lover and the swagger of a

and the swagger of a republic newly fond of its own reach

Representation of the Massacre of American Prisoners in Dartmoor Prison

its lantern room perched eighty-nine feet above the surge

where Giants fans once climbed the rocks above Eighth Avenue to watch McGraw's nine for free — a Harlem ballyard rendered in the reverent tones owed to a true civic shrine

the spires of Trinity and the early towers of Wall Street rising behind like the counting-house cathedrals of a republic still tallying its fortune

Wisconsin Madison framed pipe lover and the swagger of aWisconsin Madison sits on its isthmus between Mendota and Monona, the Capitol dome rising like a smaller cousin of Washington's over a city of lake steamers and university quadrangles a postcard town where lithographed views of State Street and linen cards of the Memorial Union terrace did steady work through the golden age. About the Source Bella Frye curates American postcards from the great postcard golden age (1900s 1930s) greetings cards, large