Kentucky Louisville framed stettheimer the republic forcibly enlarging itself

the republic forcibly enlarging itself across a foreign skyline

and any space drawn to the great American century of industry and ornamentation

and the wheat-funded brick of Front Street

An astronomical lithograph for the contemplative hour

The Ghetto — a Lower East Side tableau thick with pushcarts

Kentucky Louisville framed stettheimer the republic forcibly enlarging itselfKentucky Louisville arrives in lithographed views of the Ohio River bend, Churchill Downs twin spires under a Derby Day sky, and Fourth Street greeting cards bright with the bustle of a bourbon town. These postcards remember a city built on tobacco warehouses, steamboat whistles, and the slow drawl of a Southern crossroads. About the Source Bella Frye curates American postcards from the great postcard golden age (1900s 1930s) greetings cards, large