Mel Wana Motel Portland Oregon Size:24x18 Funeral Car of President Abraham

Funeral Car of President Abraham Lincoln Passing the State House at Columbus

and the Belle Isle bridge — postcards mailed from the Motor City when assembly lines were new and the Detroit River carried freighters down from the Lakes in steady

Death of Lieut Col Henry Clay Jr of the Second Regiment Kentucky Volunteers — a mournful lithograph fixing the fall of the Great Compromiser's son at Buena Vista in 1847

Tom Orourke Boston Beaneaters Baseball Card Portrait — a 19th-century tobacco-era portrait of a Beaneater in the woolen flannel and handlebar dignity of the National League's earliest seasons

the kind of civic wall-piece a Gilded Age parlor hung as proof that the Union had survived its rupture and resumed counting in orderly succession

Mel Wana Motel Portland Oregon Size:24x18 Funeral Car of President AbrahamMel Wana Motel Portland Oregon arrives in neon glow and clean swept courts a low slung roadside haven where chrome finned sedans nose into numbered stalls, vacancy signs flicker against the Oregon dusk, and tidy cabins promise hot water and a good night's rest off the highway. A monument to the auto touring boom, cataloged in linen postcards from the motor court era. About the Source Bella Frye curates American postcards from the great postcard golden