Steel Wings Over Manhattan Vintage Military Aviation Print old_map_auburn Connecticut Hartford arrives by way

Connecticut Hartford arrives by way of the Insurance City — a collection of lithographed views where the gold-domed State Capitol presides over elm-shaded avenues

its orbital geometry traced with the reverent precision of a draftsman who suspected Saturn's bands were divine punctuation

Hemingway's shaded verandas

its lantern-room geometry and Fresnel apparatus plotted with the precision of men who knew the Pacific takes ships that aren't warned in time

studio gates and Grauman's forecourt traced in the same hand that mailed dreams east at two cents a stamp

Steel Wings Over Manhattan Vintage Military Aviation Print old_map_auburn Connecticut Hartford arrives by waySteel Wings Over Manhattan Vintage Military Aviation Print a martial tableau of warbirds banking above the spired skyline, the Empire State and Chrysler reduced to silver totems beneath the formation. The scene carries the bravado of a wartime recruiting plate, when aviation and Manhattan's vertical ambition seemed cut from the same alloy. About the Source Bella Frye sources NYC artifacts from American photographic archives, postcard collections, and