Automotive Equipment Company halloween art framed while distant peaks dissolve into

while distant peaks dissolve into rose-and-violet haze — a working waterway hushed to gold in the linen and lithographed postcards of the steamboat-and-salmon era

blazing decade when American clippers ruled the tea routes and made even steam look slow

charming a kingdom of silk into bankrolling a revolution it could scarcely afford

and the steady gospel-march from tidewater pulpits to frontier brush arbors

First Landing at Gorahama 1856 documents an American footfall on Japanese soil in the wake of Perry's black ships

Automotive Equipment Company halloween art framed while distant peaks dissolve intoAutomotive Equipment Company arrives in chrome bright promise and oil slick optimism a showroom of polished fenders and tire stacks lining an Oregon storefront, plate glass windows catching the gleam of a city trading horse and harness for horsepower, where mechanics in coveralls posed beside gas pumps and grease pits, cataloged in real photo and linen postcards from the motoring dawn of the 1910s and '20s. About the Source Bella Frye curates American