An Acknowledgment From the Delegates to the Philadelphia Commercial Museum 1899 Granddaughter_art Bella Frye sources maritime illustrations

Bella Frye sources maritime illustrations from American archives and 19th-century lithographic publishers — Currier & Ives

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and the avenues drawn in the bold optimism of an architect who believed the future would be built

Michigan Detroit arrives in lithographed views of Woodward Avenue at full hum — streetcars

An Acknowledgment From the Delegates to the Philadelphia Commercial Museum 1899 Granddaughter_art Bella Frye sources maritime illustrationsAn Acknowledgment From the Delegates to the Philadelphia Commercial Museum, 1899. A formal courtesy issued from the marble halls of an institution built to inventory the world's goods Philadelphia's curious experiment in cataloguing trade itself, signed in the ornamented hand of a republic newly intoxicated by commerce. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National