Standing at Vista House on the basalt rim of Crown Point, a woman in a full circle skirt and orange blouse gazes west down the Columbia River Gorge — a real traveller pausing in a Kodachrome-bright moment that photographer Ray Atkeson caught for posterity in this 1950s chrome-era postcard. The Columbia winds between forested ridges toward the Pacific, railroad tracks threading the Oregon shore like a silver thread, the whole scene drenched in the saturated teal-and-gold palette that made Atkeson Oregon's most beloved landscape photographer. On the reverse, a woman named Ethel dashed off an irresistible dispatch on a Tuesday in June 1951 to her friend Pearl in Attica, Indiana: "This is the river we followed this afternoon, on to west coast tomorrow. A long way from home, enjoying it all." The 2-cent Jefferson stamp is tied by a Portland, Oregon machine cancel dated JUN 3, 1951 — a complete, legible strike. Published by Mike Roberts Color Productions of Berkeley, California (card C773), this is a fine example of the Natural Color Kodachrome postcard series.