Oregon Timber Orlando_City_SC A portrait of the general

A portrait of the general who became president

the cobbled Turnaround marking trail's end

when machine politics still wore the costume of civic virtue

all framed by a horizon that refuses to end

Centennial Jubilee Memorial Card 1876 — a hundred years out from Independence

Oregon Timber Orlando_City_SC A portrait of the generalOregon Timber arrives in stands of Douglas fir towering over the loggers dwarfed at their bases, ox teams and steam donkeys dragging old growth giants down skid roads, and log rafts riding the rivers toward tidewater mills the green empire of the Pacific Northwest cataloged in linen and real photo postcards from the era when fir built the West. About the Source Bella Frye curates American postcards from the great postcard golden age (1900s 1930s)