Mel Wana Motel Portland Oregon Frame Style:Verdigris Frame These are postcards written from

These are postcards written from a city built to be photographed

A View of the Columbian Exposition 1893 — a chromolithograph of the White City rising along Lake Michigan

The scene burns with the terrible clarity of a war the lithographers knew would close one empire and christen another

the French-born merchant who once bankrolled a young republic now rendered in the sober tones of Jacksonian-era engraving

A postwar traveler's haven of clean linens and mountain air

Mel Wana Motel Portland Oregon Frame Style:Verdigris Frame These are postcards written fromMel 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