Portland Columbia Airport Portland Oregon Size:24x18 each dovetailed course keyed against

each dovetailed course keyed against the Atlantic that swallowed the first iron tower in 1851

Steamboat Shady Side - Hudson River Sidewheeler - Vintage Maritime Print — a chromolithograph of the little day-boat churning her paddlewheels against the Palisades

Destruction of the Rebel Merrimac Off Craney Island 1862 - Vintage Maritime Print a Civil War lithograph rendered in the smoke-and-spectacle tradition

23896 Cross Bow by C Sanftleben H Russel Patented August 1 1859 — Sanftleben and Russel's inventor's diagram catches the crossbow at a curious American moment

gathered at an institutional refuge built by a defeated cause that had learned to call itself memory

Portland Columbia Airport Portland Oregon Size:24x18 each dovetailed course keyed againstPortland Columbia Airport Portland Oregon arrives in propeller era optimism silver airliners taxiing across tarmac edged by the Columbia's broad sweep, hangars catching the flat northern light, and passengers in hats crossing the field toward terminals freshly raised on filled bottomland. A gateway of the air cataloged in linen postcards from the days when flight still promised wonder. About the Source Bella Frye curates American postcards from the