Grand Coulee Dam Spillway Grand Coulee Dam Washington Frame Style:Bourbon Frame A campaign portrait of Manifest

A campaign portrait of Manifest Destiny in human form

The scene belongs to that brief

The Sun's Violent Breath 1892 Solar Prominence Study renders the spectroscopist's terrifying glimpse — those tongues of incandescent hydrogen leaping a hundred thousand miles from the limb

and lantern-room sightline was drawn against the certainty that the shoals would try to take it back

Grand Coulee Dam Spillway Grand Coulee Dam Washington Frame Style:Bourbon Frame A campaign portrait of ManifestGrand Coulee Dam Spillway Grand Coulee Dam Washington arrives in a thundering curtain of Columbia River water cascading down concrete the color of bone, the largest dam of its age rising from the scablands of eastern Washington a New Deal colossus of turbines and floodlights, cataloged in linen postcards from the era when engineering itself was sold as spectacle. About the Source Bella Frye curates American postcards from the great postcard golden age