Postcard

Name/Title

Postcard

Entry/Object ID

1950.135.0393

Description

Panorama of Rawlins Update July 2011: Three color cards, birds eye view of Rawlins looking east. Foreground is a hill with rocks & brush, dirt roads are at the base. City streets & houses are in the center. Hills, clouds & the sky are in the background. Printed in black at top border: "1053 - Panorama of Rawlins, Alt. 6787 Ft., on the Lincoln Highway (U.S. 30). Printed on bottom border: "Between the Continental Divide and the North Platte in Southern Wyoming" Printed on back in upper left: "Rawlins in a prosperous city on the Lincoln Highway in the heart of the vast prairie stretches of Southern Wyoming. It's pleasant tree lined streets and green lawns are a striking change from the wide and rolling plains, with scarcely a tree, traversed for miles along the highways leading to town. Printed on right side: "POST CARD" Square around "Place One Cent Stamp Here" Down the middle Sanborn Souvenir Co.,m Denver, Colo" Written in blue top left: "Jungquist" (on 1 & 2). 1. Good condition. Creased, top edge worn, soiled. Size 3 1/2 x 5 1/2" 2. Good condition. Tack hole in top, scuffed. Size 3 1/2 x 5 1/2" 3. Good condition. Soiled, edges worn, liquid spots on back, Written in pencil top right: "1.50"

Collection

Photograph Collection