Grand Coulee Dam Grand Coulee Dam Wash'1 farm house sign sinewy men who made the

sinewy men who made the American turf — silks and stirrups rendered with the reverence usually reserved for generals

the mummified figures known as Sylvester and Sylvia drawing wide-eyed crowds off the Colman Dock piers

and again on the deck of the South Atlantic Blockading Squadron off Charleston

George Washington 1893 — a late-century homage struck nearly a hundred years after the general's death

Lincoln as Boy 1914 — a 1914 backward glance at the rail-splitter before the railsplitting

Grand Coulee Dam Grand Coulee Dam Wash'1 farm house sign sinewy men who made theGrand Coulee Dam Grand Coulee Dam Wash arrives in poured concrete and spillway thunder the Columbia harnessed mid roar, turbines humming beneath a wall the color of bone, and desert scablands stretching dry toward the horizon. A monument to dynamos and New Deal ambition, cataloged in linen postcards from the era when the river learned to make light. About the Source Bella Frye curates American postcards from the great postcard golden age (1900s 1930s)