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Yosemite National Park

Sat, 31 Oct 2009 16:23:32 +0100

Title:
Yosemite National Park
Yosemite (CA), Continental Chrome PM 1989 Feb-14

Description:
First Day of Issue: February 14, 1989. First Issue Location: Yosemite, California

Mammoth Cave Hotel

Sat, 31 Oct 2009 16:19:25 +0100

Title:
Mammoth Cave Hotel
Mammoth Cave (KY), Continental Chrome PM Aug-23

Description:
Mammoth Cave Hotel Mammoth Cave National Park, Kentucky Color Photo by Ellis Sawyer

Wawona Hotel

Sat, 31 Oct 2009 16:19:25 +0100

Title:
Wawona Hotel
Yosemite National Park (CA), Continental Chrome unused

Description:
Dana Morgenson Historic (1875) Wawona Hotel offers many vacation activities for summer visitors, golf, riding, swimming, tennis, fishing, hiking. Adjacent to nine-hole golf course and Pioneer Yosemite History Center. 35 miles from Valley. Color Photo by Dana Morgenson

Air View at the Entrance to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park

Sat, 31 Oct 2009 13:48:04 +0100

Title:
Air View at the Entrance to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park
Gatlinburg (TN), Chrome unused

Description:
Nestled in a valley surrounded by The Great Smokies, Gatlinburg has become the main entrance to the National Park. With many fine Hotels, Motor Courts, and Restaurants, Gatlinburg affords the visitor the finest in Resort atmosphere. Color Photo by Gene Aiken Koppel

View of Central Avenue

Sat, 31 Oct 2009 13:45:29 +0100

Title:
View of Central Avenue
Hot Springs National Park (AR), Chrome unused

Description:
View from an Arlington Hotel sundeck - looking over holly and magnolia tree bordered Bath House Row Dexter Press Inc

Parking Terrace and Visitors Center- Carlsbad Caverns National Park

Sat, 31 Oct 2009 13:44:24 +0100

Title:
Parking Terrace and Visitors Center- Carlsbad Caverns National Park
(NM), Chrome unused

Description:
A view of the parking terraces and visitors' Center at the Carlsbad Caverns. The largest number of cars parked here in one day was over 2500 and the largest number of visitors to the caverns in one day was over 7500 Hemler Post Card Co

The Majestic Hotel and Baths

Sat, 31 Oct 2009 13:43:34 +0100

Title:
The Majestic Hotel and Baths
Hot Springs National Park (AR), Chrome unused

Description:
"Queen of Resort Hotels", featuring the World-Famous Whirlpool Thermal Baths, with guests going direct from rooms to Bathhouse in robe and slippers...400 air-conditioned rooms, including kitchenette, new Lanai Tower, and poolside Lanai Suites connecting with Hotel. Year 'round temperature-controlled pool, with separate pool for the kiddies. European Plan, Dining room, Luncheonette, Dutch Treat Grill, etc. "Prices to Fit Every Pocketbook"

Rocky Mountain Goat and Shelter, New York Zoological Park

Sat, 17 Oct 2009 20:17:53 +0100

Title:
Rocky Mountain Goat and Shelter, New York Zoological Park
New York (NY), Divided Back unused

Storm in Grand Canyon

Sat, 17 Oct 2009 20:17:49 +0100

Title:
Storm in Grand Canyon
Grand Canyon National Park (AZ), Divided Back unused

Description:
Joaquin Miller thus describes a storm in the Canyon which he witnessed: "The battles of the elements roared far below us and all the time, as far as the eye could reach, the white clouds curled, drifted, drooped, died, then rose again. The thunder at intervals was fearfully impressive. We felt at one time that the temples, towers and battlements of red which burst here and there among the thunder clouds, must be crumbled into dust. The lighnting continually wrote the autograph of God on and through the clouds at our feet, but when the clouds would part, all would be as before."

Hopi House

Sat, 17 Oct 2009 20:17:48 +0100

Title:
Hopi House
Grand Canyon National Park (AZ), Divided Back PM 1912 May-6

Description:
The Hopi House is an exact reproduction of a Hopi Indian pueblo. It is an irregular stone structure plastered with adobe and rising three stories high. Here are Hopi men, women and children. Some decorating and burning pottery, others spinning yarn and weaving squaw dresses and blankets, and perhaps some maiden weaving a basket. Hopi land is the old province of Tusayan on the border of the Painted Desert. Several rooms in the Hopi House are devoted to a rare and costly exhibit of Indian handicraft

Cape Horn on Bright Angel Trail

Sat, 17 Oct 2009 20:17:48 +0100

Title:
Cape Horn on Bright Angel Trail
Grand Canyon National Park (AZ), Divided Back unused

Description:
The various rock formations of the Grand Canyon have been given distinguishing names by scientists and nature lovers. Thus from Cape Horn on Bright Angel Trail one sees "The Battleship," the "Pyramid of Cheops," "Isis Temple" and the "Temple of Buddha." Also directly across the Canyon Bright Angel Creek may be seen

Zoroaster from The River

Sat, 17 Oct 2009 20:17:47 +0100

Title:
Zoroaster from The River
Grand Canyon National Park (AZ), Divided Back unused

Description:
When you go down Bright Angel Trail you will gain an abiding sense of the real proportions of the canyon. For the first two miles the decent is sort of a Jacob's Ladder, zigzagging at an unrelenting pitch. At the end of two miles a comparatively gentle slope is reached. On the way are the Indian Gardens. Looking back from this level the huge towers that border the rim shrink to pigmies, yet less than one-half the decent has been made. Then the final trail begins through the granite towards the river. At the foot of the trail is the river, from which point is seen the Temple of Zoroaster

The Zig-Zags on Bright Angel Trail

Sat, 17 Oct 2009 20:17:47 +0100

Title:
The Zig-Zags on Bright Angel Trail
Grand Canyon National Park (AZ), Divided Back unused

Description:
The Grand Canyon is a trough 6000 to 7000 feet deep, ten to twenty miles wide, hundreds of miles long, peopled with hundreds of peaks taller than any mountain east of the Rockies, and all ablaze with such color as no Eastern or European landscape ever knew. And as you sit on the brink the Divine Scene-Shifter gives you a new canyon every hour; with each degree of the sun's course the great countersunk mountains fade away and new ones are carved by the westering shadows Detroit Publishing Co

Hotel El Tovar

Sat, 17 Oct 2009 20:17:46 +0100

Title:
Hotel El Tovar
Grand Canyon National Park (AZ), Divided Back unused

Hotel El Tovar

Sat, 17 Oct 2009 20:17:46 +0100

Title:
Hotel El Tovar
Grand Canyon National Park (AZ), Divided Back unused

The Hopi House, Grand Canyon of Arizona

Sat, 17 Oct 2009 20:17:46 +0100

Title:
The Hopi House, Grand Canyon of Arizona
Grand Canyon National Park (AZ), Divided Back PM 1910 Oct-2

Description:
A short distance from El Tovar and a stone's throw from the Canyon Wall is the Hopi House, an irregular, three-story, stone structure, plastered with adobe. It is an exact reproduction of a Hopi Indian pueblo. The Hopi Indians (frequently called Moqui) are the most primitive Indians in America, with ceremonies centuries old. Several rooms in the Hopi House are devoted to rare and costly exhibits of Indian handicraft

Hotel El Tovar

Sat, 17 Oct 2009 20:17:44 +0100

Title:
Hotel El Tovar
Grand Canyon National Park (AZ), Divided Back unused

Description:
El Tovar occupies a site without parallel in the world - 7,000 feet above the level of the sea on the rim of the Grand Canyon of the Colorado River, and commanding a tremendous, awe-inspiring view unequalled anywhere in the world. The roaring Colorado River in the Canyon below on one side and on the other one hundred and eighty miles of fragrant pines of the Coconino Forest. The hotel is built of native boulders and pine logs from far-off Oregon. The architect has combined in admirable proportions the Swiss chalet and the Norway villa

The Stairs to Hermit's Rest

Sat, 17 Oct 2009 20:17:43 +0100

Title:
The Stairs to Hermit's Rest
Grand Canyon National Park (AZ), Divided Back unused

The Hopi House

Sat, 17 Oct 2009 20:17:43 +0100

Title:
The Hopi House
Grand Canyon National Park (AZ), Divided Back unused

The Fire Place, Hermit's Rest

Sat, 17 Oct 2009 20:17:42 +0100

Title:
The Fire Place, Hermit's Rest
Grand Canyon National Park (AZ), Divided Back unused

Description:
One of the most attractive features of Hermit's Rest on the rime of the Grand Canyon is the great fire place. At the end of a long ride down Hermit Rim Road, a seat before the fire place in an easy chair or upon a comfortable lounge gives the visitor a sense of ease and well being

Sunset from Mohave Point

Sat, 17 Oct 2009 20:17:42 +0100

Title:
Sunset from Mohave Point
Grand Canyon National Park (AZ), Divided Back unused

Description:
Down in the Granite Gorge you can see the river and in the distance the North Wall and the Plateau beyond and all between is a panorama of peaks and minarets, pinnacles and towers, castles in Spain and fairy turrets, of glowing colors and high lights, shadows and clouds blended by a blue haze like on the highest mountain peaks and over all is silence

The Lookout

Sat, 17 Oct 2009 20:17:42 +0100

Title:
The Lookout
Grand Canyon National Park (AZ), Divided Back unused

Description:
The Lookout is a newly erected building from which the Canyon can be viewed to good advantage. A telescope mounted in the lower of the building enables one to make a detailed view in either direction

An Indian Dance in Front of the Hopi House

Sat, 17 Oct 2009 20:17:41 +0100

Title:
An Indian Dance in Front of the Hopi House
Grand Canyon National Park (AZ), Divided Back unused

The Cliff Palace, Mesa Verde National Park

Sat, 17 Oct 2009 20:17:41 +0100

Title:
The Cliff Palace, Mesa Verde National Park
(CO), Divided Back unused

Description:
"Phostint"

Desert View, Looking North

Sat, 17 Oct 2009 20:17:40 +0100

Title:
Desert View, Looking North
Grand Canyon National Park (AZ), Divided Back unused

Description:
Standing upon the brink of the plateau at the point of the Canyon's greatest width and depth, the beholder is confronted by a scene whose majesty and beauty are well nigh unbearable and when the shadows of evening descend over the great chasm, it is a new world compelling the tribute of sensations whose intensity exceeds the familiar signification of words. Never was picture more harmonious, never flower more exquisitely beautiful

On Hermit Trail, 1700 feet below the rim

Sat, 17 Oct 2009 20:17:40 +0100

Title:
On Hermit Trail, 1700 feet below the rim
Grand Canyon National Park (AZ), Divided Back unused

Description:
Hermit Trail, the easiest way to the heart of the Canyon, is about nine miles west of El Tovar. It is a trail of easy grades and long zig zags, and four feet wide. Diverging from it on the plateau is the old Tonto Trail, connecting with Bright Angel, Grand View and other Canyon trails to the river

Looking Northeast From Mojave Point

Sat, 17 Oct 2009 20:17:39 +0100

Title:
Looking Northeast From Mojave Point
Grand Canyon National Park (AZ), Divided Back unused

Description:
Across the canyon from Mojave Point thirteen miles away is Kaibab Plateau. This view comprises Cheops Pyramid, Isis Temple, Buddha Temple, Brahma Temple, and the Temple of Zoroaster, and a glimpse of Bright Angel Point far away on the north wall of the Canyon. In the distance is Walhalla Plateau

Hotel El Tovar

Sat, 17 Oct 2009 20:17:39 +0100

Title:
Hotel El Tovar
Grand Canyon National Park (AZ), Divided Back unused

Description:
El Tovar at Grand Canyon is built of native boulders and pine logs from far off Oregon. Its lines are in harmony with the simplicity of its surroundings. It is named after Don Pedro del Tovar, leader of a detachment of Coronado's expedition in 1540 that explored and conquered the Province of Tusayan, now known as Hopi land Detroit Publishing Co

Hermit Creek Trail

Sat, 17 Oct 2009 20:17:39 +0100

Title:
Hermit Creek Trail
Grand Canyon National Park (AZ), Divided Back unused

Indian Gardens, Bright Angel Trail

Sat, 17 Oct 2009 20:17:39 +0100

Title:
Indian Gardens, Bright Angel Trail
Grand Canyon National Park (AZ), Divided Back PM 1922 Nov-13

Description:
The Indian Gardens on Bright Angel Trail are 2990 feet below the rim and about half way from the rim to the river. Years ago this patch was cultivated by a band of Havasupai Indians, hence the name given them. Watermelons and garden truck still are raised in abundance. The elevation of the Gardens is 3876 feet Detroit Publishing Co

The Canyon seen through the Pines on the Rim