Mel Wana Motel Portland Oregon Size:24x18 Death of Lieut Col Henry

Death of Lieut Col Henry Clay Jr of the Second Regiment Kentucky Volunteers — a mournful lithograph fixing the fall of the Great Compromiser's son at Buena Vista in 1847

Patrick's rising from what was then the upper reaches of Manhattan

and the Belle Isle bridge — postcards mailed from the Motor City when assembly lines were new and the Detroit River carried freighters down from the Lakes in steady

their Gothic arches strung high against the Cascade haze

Mel Wana Motel Portland Oregon Size:24x18 Death of Lieut Col HenryMel Wana Motel Portland Oregon arrives in neon glow and clean swept courts a low slung roadside haven where chrome finned sedans nose into numbered stalls, vacancy signs flicker against the Oregon dusk, and tidy cabins promise hot water and a good night's rest off the highway. A monument to the auto touring boom, cataloged in linen postcards from the motor court era. About the Source Bella Frye curates American postcards from the great postcard golden