Grand Canyon of Arizona, Grand Canyon, AZ, 1936

About this postcard

The view takes in the eroded buttes and terraced walls of the Grand Canyon, with deep shadowed gorges below and a pale sky above. The canyon is described as a river channel about 7,000 feet deep, thirteen miles wide, and hundreds of miles long, one of the scenic wonders of the world and a place visited by thousands of tourists each year. The Colorado River cut the gorge through layered rock, and by 1936 the canyon was a national park and a long-established stop on the Santa Fe Railway route to the South Rim, where the El Tovar hotel stood. A brief note home, mailed that year, is a small trace of the tourist traffic the canyon drew.