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The grain of the photograph on the old postcard I held was surprisingly clear: an old inn lined with shrubs and trees perched near a cliff overlooking the Columbia River Gorge. This simple ink-stained paper rectangle transported me through time and space.
It was just one of perhaps hundreds of thousands of cataloged postcards for sale at a Webfooters Post Card Club event earlier this month at the Oregon Stamp Society in northeast Portland.
