Blue Spruce Motel Spokane Washington Size:36x24 Grand Salute at Vera Cruz

Grand Salute at Vera Cruz - American Fleet and Castle San Juan - Vintage Maritime Print — a chromolithograph of cannon-smoke diplomacy in the Gulf

when a target was less a paper bullseye than a freestanding apparatus — bullseye

and true enough

its outcome decided not at the polls but in a back room

Blue Spruce Motel Spokane Washington Size:36x24 Grand Salute at Vera CruzBlue Spruce Motel Spokane Washington arrives in neon lit promise along the highway's edge tidy cabins ringed by namesake evergreens, a pole sign glowing against the inland dusk, and chrome finned sedans angled into gravel courts. A roadside haven of the auto touring age, cataloged in linen postcards from when the open road first beckoned travelers westward. About the Source Bella Frye curates American postcards from the great postcard golden age