Print, Postcard

Name/Title

Print, Postcard

Entry/Object ID

2021.3.53

Description

Color postcard of Convict Lake. Publisher's text on reverse: No. 58 in Union Oil Company's Natural Color Scenes of the West. Convict Lake, in the High Sierras of Claifornia 38 miles north of Bishop, was named for a party of escaped convicts captured here in 1871. Convict is one of hundreds of lakes in the beautiful Sierras, reached from the east on Highway 395. See the Old West this year with 76 gasoline.

Made/Created

Date made

1941