Delaware Wilmington indianapolis art The Ansonia Gilded Age Monument

The Ansonia Gilded Age Monument to Manhattan Grandeur renders the Upper West Side's beaux-arts behemoth in full operatic swagger — mansard roofs

California San Francisco arrives in fog and cable-car bells — a postcard city of Nob Hill terraces

when every brewmaster had a patent attorney on retainer and a draftsman down the hall

The Dirigible's Last Mooring — Manhattan Nocturne renders that brief

rendered in full gallop against the darkness of the American night

Delaware Wilmington indianapolis art The Ansonia Gilded Age MonumentDelaware Wilmington sits where the Brandywine meets the Christina, a powder mill town turned du Pont stronghold whose postcards trade in red brick rowhouses, Market Street trolleys, and the quiet shimmer of riverfront shipyards. These are lithographed views of the First State's working capital, sent when Wilmington still called itself the Chemical Capital of the World. About the Source Bella Frye curates American postcards from the great postcard