Nevada Reno Camera_Print 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

The Gillette Razor Patent of 194 Blueprint of the Modern Morning Ritual comes from the great age of the American barbershop — when a shave was a ritual

The Pacholder Cigarette Form Patent — a Ritual of Smoke and Industry is the kind of detail that survives only in the patent record — a small mechanical solution dedicated entirely to the pleasure of a slow draw

The Barbers Edge Patent Blueprint of the Gentlemans Blade belongs to the era when every neighborhood had its barber and every barber had his preferences — and patents like this one were how those preferences became standard

and elevated rails converge beneath the bronze bell-ringers of Bennett's newspaper palace

Nevada Reno Camera_Print The Ansonia Gilded Age MonumentNevada Reno arrives under the glow of the Truckee River and the famous arch on Virginia Street, where divorce trade hotels, neon lit casinos, and Sierra bound rail yards collided. The collection gathers linen views and real photo postcards of a high desert town that branded itself, in lithographed script, as the Biggest Little City in the World. About the Source Bella Frye curates American postcards from the great postcard golden age (1900s 1930s)