U S S Portland Passing Under St John's Bridge Portland Oregon Size:36x24 First Regiment German Rifles

First Regiment German Rifles

and the breweries along Pestalozzi Street smoking through the river haze of a city that once called itself the Gateway

George Washington 1892 — a late-century homage struck nearly a hundred years after the General's death

rendered in the season when Manifest Destiny had grown confident enough to mistake conquest for inheritance

U S S Portland Passing Under St John's Bridge Portland Oregon Size:36x24 First Regiment German RiflesU S S Portland Passing Under St John's Bridge Portland Oregon arrives in steel and steam the cruiser's gray hull gliding the Willamette beneath the suspension towers, their Gothic arches strung high against the Cascade haze, while dockside cranes and timbered bluffs frame the channel. A moment of naval pride and river commerce caught in linen postcards from the 1930s. About the Source Bella Frye curates American postcards from the great postcard