Ohio Cleveland Frame Style:Ebony Frame and quietly proud of it

and quietly proud of it

with shore hotels

and the smaller regional houses that documented every Main Street

This print is drawn from an original painting of the Headless Horseman — Washington Irving's immortal figure from The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

The Gentlemans Vice Patent 1193593 belongs to the smokehouse era of design — when the act of lighting a cigar carried enough cultural weight to justify a patent application and a draftsman's afternoon

Ohio Cleveland Frame Style:Ebony Frame and quietly proud of itOhio Cleveland rises off the Cuyahoga in lithographed views of smokestacks and steamers, Euclid Avenue's Millionaires' Row paraded across linen postcards, and the great arcade glinting under gaslight a Forest City rendered when iron ore from the lakes still met Pennsylvania coal at the harbor mouth. About the Source Bella Frye curates American postcards from the great postcard golden age (1900s 1930s) greetings cards, large letter cards, real photo