Grand Coulee Dam Grand Coulee Dam Wash'1 farm house sign rendered in the candy-counter palette

rendered in the candy-counter palette of a Depression-era boyhood

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

Andrew Pickens Butler

Grand Coulee Dam Grand Coulee Dam Wash'1 farm house sign rendered in the candy-counter paletteGrand 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)