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Great Falls of the Yellowstone, Yellowstone National Park, 1932

Subjects
Mountains & HillsNational & State ParksRivers & Streams
Card type
Linen
Date
c. 1932 (Linen)
Front of Great Falls of the Yellowstone, Yellowstone National Park, 1932, c. 1932 linen postcard
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Back of Great Falls of the Yellowstone, Yellowstone National Park, 1932, c. 1932 linen postcard
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About this postcard

The view looks up the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone at the Great Falls, a 308-foot drop of the Yellowstone River between steep rhyolite walls colored in ochre, pink, and gray. A road and an automobile appear on the rim at upper right. The falls are the lower of the canyon's two cataracts, and the canyon's color comes from hydrothermally altered rhyolite. The printed text calls the canyon "a cameo of every shade of colors, from crimson to black, deep orange to gray, pink to pearl and back again." Yellowstone was established as a national park in 1872, and the canyon was among its early landmarks.

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PublisherSanborn Souvenir Co.
GREAT FALLS OF THE YELLOWSTONE FROM BELOW, 308 FEET YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK THE GRAND CANYON OF THE YELLOWSTONE The Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone affords a spectacle worthy of a national park even if there were no geysers. It stands out from other "grand canyons" because of its vivid colorings. It is a cameo of every shade of colors, from crimson to black, deep orange to gray, pink to pearl and back again.
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Postcard record

PublisherSanborn Souvenir Co.
Series958 2A-H710
ConditionVery good
Place depictedYellowstone National Park, WY
PublisherSanborn Souvenir Co., Denver, CO
NotesLinen-textured stock with a white border; Curt Teich production code "2A-H710" printed at lower right. No postmark or handwriting; unused card. Undivided back with "THIS SPACE FOR ADDRESS ONLY" and a one-cent stamp box; linen-textured stock with white border (from front); light soiling and faint foxing on the blank lower half.

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Great Falls of the Yellowstone, Yellowstone National Park, 1932, postcard, c. 1932. PostalPast Collection. https://postalpast.com/postcard/great-falls-of-the-yellowstone-yellowstone-national-park-193. Accessed November 2, 2026.