Grand Coulee Dam Spillway Grand Coulee Dam Washington Frame Style:Bourbon Frame The Sun's Violent Breath 1892

The Sun's Violent Breath 1892 Solar Prominence Study renders the spectroscopist's terrifying glimpse — those tongues of incandescent hydrogen leaping a hundred thousand miles from the limb

GW Gail Axe Navy Plug 1886 — a tobacco label from the heyday of the Baltimore plug trade

issued thirteen years after his death and circulated as the country was already pivoting toward a new war

Douglas of Illinois

1838 catches the future president mid-ascent

Grand Coulee Dam Spillway Grand Coulee Dam Washington Frame Style:Bourbon Frame The Sun's Violent Breath 1892Grand Coulee Dam Spillway Grand Coulee Dam Washington arrives in a thundering curtain of Columbia River water cascading down concrete the color of bone, the largest dam of its age rising from the scablands of eastern Washington a New Deal colossus of turbines and floodlights, cataloged in linen postcards from the era when engineering itself was sold as spectacle. About the Source Bella Frye curates American postcards from the great postcard golden age