New Equitable Building Portland Oregon Size:24x36 shipwrights and bluejackets crowd the

shipwrights and bluejackets crowd the rails

and the gospel arrived with the surveyor close behind

Major General Zachary Taylor 1848 — the hero of Buena Vista rendered in his Mexican War epaulets the same year the Whigs would draft him for the presidency

the war still wearing its first uniform

executive offices

New Equitable Building Portland Oregon Size:24x36 shipwrights and bluejackets crowd theNew Equitable Building Portland Oregon arrives in steel and terra cotta, a downtown tower rising sheer above streetcar wires and awning shaded sidewalks, its windows catching the gray Willamette light. Stenographers and timber clerks crowd its elevators while the river city hums below a monument to commerce cataloged in linen and lithographed postcards from the rail and roses era. About the Source Bella Frye curates American postcards from the great