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The Waxing Crescent Smith's Celestial Observations is selenography in its most devotional register — a slender sickle of moon caught at the threshold of becoming

The scene carries the bravado of a wartime recruiting plate

The Gilded Refuge Where Manhattan's Elite Escaped to Water's Edge Frame Style:Ebony Frame The Barbers Instrument Patent NoThe Gilded Refuge Where Manhattan's Elite Escaped to Water's Edge a tableau of shingled verandas and yacht flecked harbor, where Astors and Vanderbilts traded Fifth Avenue's brownstone heat for sea air and starched linen. The scene reads like a society column rendered in silver gelatin, every awning angled toward the tide. About the Source Bella Frye sources NYC artifacts from American photographic archives, postcard collections, and period broadsides