Alaska Philly_Eagles_Fan Samuel Ryan Curtis 19th Century

Samuel Ryan Curtis 19th Century — the Union general who held Pea Ridge and pushed the war into the trans-Mississippi

carriages wheeling past the southwest gate of the park in the unhurried choreography of a city still learning its own scale

all set against the Wasatch Range rising abruptly from the valley floor like a curtain pulled back on the desert

A Victorian astrologer's plate that still carries the gravity of natural philosophy — half ephemeris

Alaska Philly_Eagles_Fan Samuel Ryan Curtis 19th CenturyAlaska arrives by mailboat and dogsled glacier blue tidewater, totem poles weathered by Pacific rain, and gold rush boomtowns scratched into the Yukon's shoulder. These postcards traffic in midnight sun and Mount McKinley's white wall, the Last Frontier rendered in linen and real photo before the highway ever reached it. About the Source Bella Frye curates American postcards from the great postcard golden age (1900s 1930s) greetings cards, large