Lake Apartments Motel Soap Lake Washingtonwash State Highway 7 last name sign their names and badges rendered

their names and badges rendered with the solemn pageantry a young republic reserved for its uniformed dead

A chromolithograph that understood it was witnessing the death of sail and the birth of steel

These are lithographed views of the First State's working capital

touring cars winding the Paradise road past wildflower meadows and snowfields lingering into summer

Lake Apartments Motel Soap Lake Washingtonwash State Highway 7 last name sign their names and badges renderedLake Apartments Motel Soap Lake Washington State Highway 7 arrives in roadside repose neon trimmed cabins flanking the mineral shimmer of Soap Lake, where folks once soaked in healing waters thick with froth and minerals along the desert highway's edge. A mid century waystation of clean linens and curative promise, cataloged in the linen era postcards of the open road age. About the Source Bella Frye curates American postcards from the great postcard