Rainier National Park Mt Rainier And Paradise Valley'1 Frame Style:Bourbon Frame Admiral George Dewey 1899 —

Admiral George Dewey 1899 — a commemorative portrait of the hero of Manila Bay rendered in the year America was still intoxicated by his victory

and printed for a crowd that paid in coins

while the scars of Sumter still smoldered just offshore

when the words Union and Constitution were paired like twin pillars and printed bold enough to march men toward Bull Run

and City Hall Park's clipped lawns dotted with bowler hats and trolley wires

Rainier National Park Mt Rainier And Paradise Valley'1 Frame Style:Bourbon Frame Admiral George Dewey 1899 —Rainier National Park Mt Rainier And Paradise Valley arrives in glacier bright summits looming over meadows ablaze with lupine and avalanche lily, the great mountain mirrored in snowmelt tarns as wildflower fields roll toward timberline. Here the Paradise Inn welcomed motorists in touring coats a high country wonderland cataloged in linen and real photo postcards from the early auto tourist era. About the Source Bella Frye curates American postcards