Mill Creek Auto Court The Dalles Oregon old Fort Worth map with a single broadside

with a single broadside

and the White City of the Columbian Exposition stacked like geological strata in the proud civic hand of a Gilded Age commemorative lithograph

Abraham Lincoln the Martyr President 1865 arrives draped in the heavy black crepe of April

when silk canopies were still being argued into existence and a jumper's life hung on the geometry of shroud lines

Mill Creek Auto Court The Dalles Oregon old Fort Worth map with a single broadsideMill Creek Auto Court The Dalles Oregon arrives in tidy cabins lined along the Columbia's wind carved bluffs, neon vacancy glow flickering above gravel drives where Packards and Fords idled after the long haul up the Gorge. Roadside motor courts like this one basalt cliffs rising behind, the river running wide and gray come cataloged in linen postcards from the auto touring heyday of the 1930s. About the Source Bella Frye curates American postcards