Mel Wana Motel Portland Oregon Size:24x18 Patrick's rising from what was

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

subalpine meadows blooming lupine and paintbrush along the high switchbacks of the newly carved Chinook Pass road

the kind of civic wall-piece a Gilded Age parlor hung as proof that the Union had survived its rupture and resumed counting in orderly succession

Emancipation Proclamation 1886 — a commemorative lithograph issued more than two decades after Lincoln's decree

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

Mel Wana Motel Portland Oregon Size:24x18 Patrick's rising from what wasMel 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