Air View Of Portland Oregon From South West motivation_art 1841 — a Senate portrait

1841 — a Senate portrait of the Kentuckian whose name would later attach itself to the last great compromise before the war

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

2557599 Fishing Lure by William L Dunmire (1951) Dunmire's schematic dissects the lure with anatomical patience — jointed body

Major General Israel Putnam: He Dared to Lead Where Any Dared to Follow 1864 — a wartime lithograph that reaches back across four score years to summon the old Connecticut farmer-soldier as exemplar

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Air View Of Portland Oregon From South West motivation_art 1841 — a Senate portraitAir View Of Portland Oregon From South West arrives in a high lithographed sweep rooftops and rail yards fanning toward the Willamette's silver thread, downtown blocks gridded tight against the river bend, and Mount Hood riding the far horizon in pale snow. A bird's eye city of bridges and smokestacks, cataloged from above in linen postcards of the 1920s and '30s. About the Source Bella Frye curates American postcards from the great postcard golden