Bowery Bar_Wall_Artwork optical phantoms and refracted moons

optical phantoms and refracted moons are diagrammed with the solemnity of heresy

Grit Word Definition Original Artwork from Bella Frye

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

rendered here as a Victorian cosmography where the firmament is given an axis and God

Bowery Bar_Wall_Artwork optical phantoms and refracted moonsBowery a streetscape from the rougher seam of old Manhattan, where the elevated tracks threw their iron shadow over saloons, flophouses, and vaudeville marquees. The scene hums with the particular grit of a thoroughfare that bred both Stephen Foster ballads and Bowery Boys legend. About the Source Bella Frye sources NYC artifacts from American photographic archives, postcard collections, and period broadsides the press photographers, postcard