Postcard
The Great White Sands: A National Monument Near Alamogordo, N.M.
| Tinted lithograph of two people walking in a white sand desert. Mountains are in the distance. Caption on the reverse of postcard reads: "Really not sand at all but 176,000 acres of crystallized gypsum, white as snow, windblown and rippled. This is the only area of its kind in the world and is freely ranked with the Grand Canyon and Carlsbad in its marvelous splendor and beauty." |
| Image ID: | 143079 |
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| Creation Date: | date unknown |
| Creator Name: | Curt Teich & Co., Chicago |
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| State: | New Mexico |
| Collection Name: | Classified file, circa 1850s-1950s |
| Genre: | Postcard |
| Original Format Type: | prints, photomechanical |
| Original Format Number: | CF 1428 |
| Original Dimensions: | 5.5 x 3.5 inches |
| Number 84 in a series. Photo furnished by the Alamogordo Chamber of Commerce with the co-operation of the National Park Service. Distributed by Southwest Post Card Co., Box 685, Albuquerque, N.M. Genuine Curteich-Chicago "C.T. Art-Colortone" Post Card (Reg. U.S. Pat. Off.) |
| Outdoor photography |
| Women |
| Deserts |
| Formations (Geology) |
| Landscape |
| Men |
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| Location: | Wisconsin Historical Society Archives, 4th Floor, Madison, Wisconsin |
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