Air View Of Portland Oregon From South West ben franklin framed A Lost Cause commemorative printed

A Lost Cause commemorative printed nearly three decades after Appomattox

the war two decades behind him and the pen still moving

the engraver's allegory arrives in the long shadow of the Thirteenth Amendment — broken shackles and rising figures rendered with the civic earnestness of a republic still arguing

Thirty-four hours of mortar fire rendered in smoke and ink — the opening salvo against a federal garrison in a Carolina harbor

when the South had begun translating its losses into iconography

Air View Of Portland Oregon From South West ben franklin framed A Lost Cause commemorative printedAir View Of Portland Oregon From South West arrives in a high lithographed sweep rooftops and rail yards fanning toward the Willamette's silver thread, downtown blocks gridded tight against the river bend, and Mount Hood riding the far horizon in pale snow. A bird's eye city of bridges and smokestacks, cataloged from above in linen postcards of the 1920s and '30s. About the Source Bella Frye curates American postcards from the great postcard golden