A crowded bathing beach on Canyon Lake just outside Rapid City, South Dakota. Bathers wade and swim near a red-railed diving platform and slide, with a red-roofed bathhouse, moored rowboats, and rows of automobiles parked along the shore. Canyon Lake was created in the early 1880s when a dam was built on Rapid Creek, and it served for decades as a popular recreation ground for Rapid City residents.
Linen-textured stock with vivid color; no white border; slight edge wear.
No postmark; unused card. Divided-back "Natural Color Post Card" stock (E C / K Co stamp-box corners) printed by E. C. Kropp Co., Milw., Wis. — (LEL), series 20794; published by Black Hills Novelty Co., Rapid City, S. D., ca. 1930s–40s. Printed scene description on card back; light toning/soiling, no damage.
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Bathers at Canyon Lake, Rapid City, SD, circa 1930, postcard, c. 1930. PostalPast Collection. https://postalpast.com/postcard/bathers-at-canyon-lake-rapid-city-sd-circa-1930. Accessed November 2, 2026.
