Portland Columbia Airport Portland Oregon Size:24x18 O'Rourke gazes out with the

O'Rourke gazes out with the stiff composure of a man posing for posterity before he quite knew what posterity meant

23896 Cross Bow by C Sanftleben H Russel Patented August 1 1859 — Sanftleben and Russel's inventor's diagram catches the crossbow at a curious American moment

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

Steamboat Shady Side - Hudson River Sidewheeler - Vintage Maritime Print — a chromolithograph of the little day-boat churning her paddlewheels against the Palisades

Portland Columbia Airport Portland Oregon Size:24x18 O'Rourke gazes out with thePortland 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