The Winthrop Hotel's Daffodil Room Tacoma Washington Frame Style:Verdigris Frame Capture of Fort Fisher 1865

Capture of Fort Fisher 1865 — a documentary engraving of the amphibious assault that sealed Wilmington's harbor and strangled the last Confederate lifeline to the sea

1840 — a campaign lithograph that turns a 1811 frontier skirmish into Whig mythology

stars and stripes arranged less as decoration than as a creed pressed flat against the page

1884 — a Republican campaign lithograph from the year of the Mulligan letters and the "rum

and linen-finish scenic plates from publishers like Curt Teich

The Winthrop Hotel's Daffodil Room Tacoma Washington Frame Style:Verdigris Frame Capture of Fort Fisher 1865The Winthrop Hotel's Daffodil Room Tacoma Washington arrives in golden light and white linen banquet tables set beneath chandeliers, the city's spring blooms lending their name to a ballroom where Tacoma's well heeled gathered for galas and afternoon teas. A grand dame of the South Sound, cataloged in linen postcards from the rail and timber era when the Winthrop reigned over Commerce Street. About the Source Bella Frye curates American postcards from