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Tom Orourke Boston Beaneaters Baseball Card Portrait — a 19th-century tobacco-era portrait of a Beaneater in the woolen flannel and handlebar dignity of the National League's earliest seasons

when the Cumberland still ran cold past the Confederate works

or a kitchen where the shaker is always within reach

her aluminum hull catching the gray Seattle light as gulls wheel above the wake and the Olympics rise blue beyond — the world's first streamlined ferry cataloged in linen postcards from the moderne age

January 1st 1863 — a commemorative lithograph of the New Year's Day quill stroke that turned a war for Union into a war for emancipation

Oregon Timber large New York map Tom Orourke Boston Beaneaters BaseballOregon 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)