Texas walla_walla_poster The drawing reads like a

The drawing reads like a quiet argument in stone: that a young nation could shoulder the Atlantic if it built tall enough

when allegiance to the federal compact had to be drawn

Palisades vistas

A pantheon arranged with Whiggish reverence

The lithograph holds him as the country preferred to remember him: stoic

Texas walla_walla_poster The drawing reads like aTexas arrives in linen and lithograph oil derricks black against a Panhandle sky, the Alamo's worn limestone facade, longhorns drifting across rangeland that runs flat to the horizon. These are postcards from a state that always insisted on its own scale, where Main Street meant cattle drives and courthouse domes rose like small capitols. About the Source Bella Frye curates American postcards from the great postcard golden age (1900s 1930s) greetings