Shepperd's Dell Columbia River Highway Oregon'1 Frame Style:Canvas Wrap and tail-finned cars idling beneath

and tail-finned cars idling beneath the office sign

January 1842

1843 — a Whig portrait engraving of the Albany lawyer and orator at mid-career in the House

the granite shoulders of El Capitan rendered by postcard artists who understood that the valley humbles the hand that draws it

Fate of the Rebel Flag 1861 — a Union allegorical lithograph published in the war's first year

Shepperd's Dell Columbia River Highway Oregon'1 Frame Style:Canvas Wrap and tail-finned cars idling beneathShepperd's Dell Columbia River Highway Oregon arrives in basalt and falling water the slender cascade threading down moss darkened cliffs, the graceful arch of the highway bridge spanning the gorge, and motorcars idling at the overlook where ferns crowd the rail. A monument to the engineered scenic road, cataloged in linen and real photo postcards from the touring era. About the Source Bella Frye curates American postcards from the great postcard