D.L. Moody and J.V. Farwell's First Sunday School Class, North Market Hall, Chicago Vintage_Oakland_Map Every gilded balustrade and velvet-draped

Every gilded balustrade and velvet-draped tier reads as a sermon to the silent-screen era — devotion rendered in plasterwork

was a clockmaker

each visage rendered with the solemn finish that the nineteenth century reserved for men it wished to remember

The Vintners Mechanical Servant — Patent Archive Print reads like a love letter to the still — gauges

the harbor's grande dame surveying her adopted galaxy of steel

D.L. Moody and J.V. Farwell's First Sunday School Class, North Market Hall, Chicago Vintage_Oakland_Map Every gilded balustrade and velvet-drapedD. L. Moody and J. V. Farwell's First Sunday School Class, North Market Hall, Chicago a documentary photograph of the ragged children Moody gathered above a Chicago meat market, the seedbed of an evangelist's empire and a merchant's quiet patronage in the rough postwar city. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies, and the