The New Cathedral, Fifth Avenue, New York, 19th Century Frame Style:Bourbon Frame where ticker tape was the

where ticker tape was the closest thing the Gilded Age had to scripture

or a kitchen where the shaker is always within reach

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 a plate from the age when Leverrier could conjure Neptune from arithmetic alone

the bathers in wool stockings — Old Orchard Beach was New England's seaside carnival

The New Cathedral, Fifth Avenue, New York, 19th Century Frame Style:Bourbon Frame where ticker tape was theThe 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,