Great Falls and Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, circa 1940
- Card type
- Linen
About this postcard
A tall waterfall drops over a lip of rock into a deep, V-shaped canyon, its walls banded in yellow, orange, and rust-red, with dark pines clinging to the rims and slopes. This is the Lower Falls of the Yellowstone River, 308 feet high, the view that has drawn visitors to the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone since the park's first decades. The printed caption keeps the older name, Great Falls, for the same drop. The canyon's colors come from iron-rich, hydrothermally altered rhyolite, and the river below runs north toward the Yellowstone's confluence in the park's northern range.
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Postcard record
| Publisher | C.T. Art-Colortone, Sanborn Souvenir Co., Denver, Colo. |
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| Condition | Very good |
| Place depicted | Yellowstone National Park, WY |
| Place mentioned | Yellowstone National Park, WY |
| Publisher | C.T. Art-Colortone, Sanborn Souvenir Co., Denver, Colo., Denver, CO |
| Notes | Linen-textured stock with visible cross-hatch weave; narrow white border. No printed caption or imprint on the front. No postmark. Divided back; caption printed at upper left of back; "POST CARD" heading and "PLACE STAMP HERE" stamp box with number 4A-H1853; C.T. Art-Colortone imprint of Sanborn Souvenir Co., Denver, Colo. Clean, unwritten back. |
Cite this card
Great Falls and Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, circa 1940, postcard, c. 1930. PostalPast Collection. https://postalpast.com/postcard/great-falls-and-grand-canyon-of-the-yellowstone-yellowstone. Accessed November 2, 2026.