Metropolitan Center Seattle Washington Frame Style:Canvas Wrap Palisades vistas

Palisades vistas

rendered here as if Thebes had wandered into Olmsted's pastoral

grief lithographed into legend

Oregon Portland arrives in lithographed views of the Willamette's bridges stitching east bank to west

every face composed with the stiff formality of men who knew the camera was as unfamiliar as the pennant they had just won

Metropolitan Center Seattle Washington Frame Style:Canvas Wrap Palisades vistasMetropolitan Center Seattle Washington arrives in a downtown rising from regraded hills terra cotta facades catching afternoon light, streetcars threading between department stores and brick hotels, and crowds in wool coats moving past plate glass windows along Second Avenue. A boomtown of commerce and ambition cataloged in linen and real photo postcards from the early decades of the century. About the Source Bella Frye curates American postcards from