U S S Portland Passing Under St John's Bridge Portland Oregon Size:36x24 dirigibles tethered to needle-spires

dirigibles tethered to needle-spires

A regatta lithograph from the heyday of competitive sculling

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

drafted in the year of log cabins and hard cider

U S S Portland Passing Under St John's Bridge Portland Oregon Size:36x24 dirigibles tethered to needle-spiresU 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