Chehalis Seventh Day Adventist Church Chehalis Washington Size:24x18 The Men of the Hour

The Men of the Hour 1919 gathers the architects of the postwar settlement in the brittle afterglow of the Armistice — a group portrait of statesmen and commanders posed with the unwelcome gravity of a republic that had crossed an ocean to bury its dead

Robert Cumming Schenck

19th Century — a portrait of the physician-turned-artisan who taught a young republic to print pictures from boxwood

the Maine still smoldering in the national memory as the republic discovered it had a taste for distant harbors

Chehalis Seventh Day Adventist Church Chehalis Washington Size:24x18 The Men of the HourChehalis Seventh Day Adventist Church Chehalis Washington arrives in clapboard and quiet devotion a modest steepled sanctuary standing among the elm shaded streets of a Lewis County timber town, its windows catching the soft gray light of the Cascade foothills. A house of Sabbath worship cataloged in real photo postcards from the rail and rain era. About the Source Bella Frye curates American postcards from the great postcard golden age (1900s 1930s)