Portland Columbia Airport Portland Oregon Size:24x18 each dovetailed course keyed against

each dovetailed course keyed against the Atlantic that swallowed the first iron tower in 1851

its printed type still carrying the formal weight of a service academy rivalry that drew presidents and packed stadiums to capacity

cataloged in linen postcards from the dam-building 1930s

gathered at an institutional refuge built by a defeated cause that had learned to call itself memory

Portland Columbia Airport Portland Oregon Size:24x18 each dovetailed course keyed againstPortland Columbia Airport Portland Oregon arrives in propeller era optimism silver airliners taxiing across tarmac edged by the Columbia's broad sweep, hangars catching the flat northern light, and passengers in hats crossing the field toward terminals freshly raised on filled bottomland. A gateway of the air cataloged in linen postcards from the days when flight still promised wonder. About the Source Bella Frye curates American postcards from the