State Capitol At Olympia Washington vintage_map_Eureka Air View Of Portland Oregon

Air View Of Portland Oregon From South West arrives in a high lithographed sweep — rooftops and rail yards fanning toward the Willamette's silver thread

almost familial — belongs to an age when the presidency was something the country still claimed by handshake

Alexander Hamilton and the Grange

Frontier Life 1875 — a documentary engraving from the year Custer was charting the Black Hills and the treaty ink was already drying into broken promise

when the rail-splitter from Illinois took the oath into a Union already fracturing beneath him

State Capitol At Olympia Washington vintage_map_Eureka Air View Of Portland OregonState Capitol At Olympia Washington arrives in the dome's pale stone rising above Capitol Lake, the Legislative Building crowned in masonry that catches the gray Sound light, and tended grounds sloping toward the water's edge. A seat of timber state power rendered in linen and real photo postcards from the 1920s and '30s, when the new capitol stood freshly dedicated against the evergreen horizon. About the Source Bella Frye curates American postcards