Mt Hood Oregon Hood River Valley In Foreground framed bball art Henry Clay of Kentucky 1842

Henry Clay of Kentucky 1842 — a campaign portrait of the Great Compromiser at the height of his Whig powers

reads less like reverence than like a republic arguing with itself

for the empire it did not yet know it wanted

cinched laces

Mt Hood Oregon Hood River Valley In Foreground framed bball art Henry Clay of Kentucky 1842Mt Hood Oregon Hood River Valley In Foreground arrives in orchard rows blooming white across the valley floor, the Columbia's tributary cutting green through apple and pear country, and Hood itself rising glacier bright above it all a working agricultural paradise of packing sheds and blossom festivals cataloged in linen and lithographed postcards from the early twentieth century. About the Source Bella Frye curates American postcards from the great