Chrysler Wrigley_patent Design for Landaulet No 365

Design for Landaulet No 365 is a piece of living American history — an archival document transformed into a museum-quality framed print for your wall

The Grand Repository New York Public Library Postcard renders the Beaux-Arts colossus on Fifth Avenue in the full pomp of its Carrère & Hastings glory — Patience and Fortitude couchant at the steps

The Keepers Vigil Hooper Island Light Station Blueprint reads like a Chesapeake confession — the caisson's iron skirt and conical tower charted with the patient geometry of engineers who knew the Bay's shoal water would freeze

its lantern room hovering above the shoals like a held breath

charting Low Library's dome and the Beaux-Arts symmetry McKim

Chrysler Wrigley_patent Design for Landaulet No 365Chrysler a jazz age tribute to Walter Chrysler's stainless steel crown, its terraced sunbursts and eagle gargoyles photographed against the Manhattan haze in that brief 1930 moment when it reigned, however briefly, as the tallest thing humankind had ever bolted to the sky. About the Source Bella Frye sources NYC artifacts from American photographic archives, postcard collections, and period broadsides the press photographers, postcard publishers, and