A large-letter greeting card reading “GREETINGS FROM SOUTH DAKOTA,” with Mount Rushmore’s four carved presidential faces rising behind the oversized letters. Miniature scenes fill the interiors of the letters, a common mid-century device for sampling a state’s attractions. Mount Rushmore National Memorial in the Black Hills was sculpted by Gutzon Borglum between 1927 and 1941 and depicts George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, and Abraham Lincoln.
Linen texture; large-letter design.
No postmark — unused card. Undivided back with printed "Key to Views" list at left; linen-textured stock; stamp box corner marks E C / K C9; publisher imprint Black Hills Novelty Co., Rapid City, S.D., printed by E. C. Kropp Co., Milwaukee. Clean, no damage.
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Greetings from South Dakota large-letter postcard with Mount Rushmore, circa 1940, postcard, n.d.. PostalPast Collection. https://postalpast.com/postcard/greetings-from-south-dakota-large-letter-postcard-with-mount. Accessed October 25, 2026.
