Willamette Falls At Oregon City Oregon illinois postcard George Washington Entering Trenton 1789

George Washington Entering Trenton 1789

Fort Mitchell 19th Century — a documentary view of the Alabama outpost raised during the Creek War

the kind of decorative address printed when the republic was still introducing itself to the wider world and pleased to be looked upon

all soaring halls and machine-age optimism rendered in the confident strokes of a South still scrubbing off the soot of war and reaching

the Ranger captain whose death in a Mexican plaza became one of those small

Willamette Falls At Oregon City Oregon illinois postcard George Washington Entering Trenton 1789Willamette Falls At Oregon City Oregon arrives in thundering horseshoe spill water sheeting over basalt ledges while paper mills crowd the bluffs and woolen smokestacks plume against the gorge. This was the end of the Oregon Trail and the West's first long distance power, captured in linen and real photo postcards from the rail and river era. About the Source Bella Frye curates American postcards from the great postcard golden age (1900s 1930s)