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Lake McDonald Hotel on Lake McDonald, Glacier National Park, Montana, circa 1940

Subjects
Hotels & InnsLakes & PondsNational & State Parks
Card type
Linen
Date
c. 1930 (White Border)
Front of Lake McDonald Hotel on Lake McDonald, Glacier National Park, Montana, circa 1940, Yellowstone National Park, WY, USA, c. 1930 linen postcard
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Back of Lake McDonald Hotel on Lake McDonald, Glacier National Park, Montana, circa 1940, Yellowstone National Park, WY, USA, c. 1930 linen postcard
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A long, many-windowed white hotel stands at the water's edge of a deep blue mountain lake, framed by dense conifers, with a banded, red-capped peak rising behind it. The scene is Lake McDonald in Glacier National Park, where the Great Northern Railway's Lake McDonald Hotel (opened 1914) lodged park visitors on the lake shore beneath Mount Brown and Mount Edwards. The reddish striping of the peak comes from the Grinnell argillite formation characteristic of the park's mountains.

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PublisherSanborn Souvenir Co.
© FLASH --- 1044—BEARTOOTH LAKE AND BEARTOOTH BUTTE ON RED LODGE—COOKE CITY HIGHWAY TO YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK Northeast entrance route from Billings via Red Lodge, Cooke, and Silver Gate. "C. T. ART-COLORTONE," SANBORN SOUVENIR CO., DENVER, COLO. POSTAL CARD PLACE ONE CENT STAMP HERE 4A-H1856
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PublisherSanborn Souvenir Co.
ConditionGood
Place mentionedYellowstone National Park, WY
PublisherSanborn Souvenir Co., Denver, CO
NotesLinen-textured stock with visible crosshatch; small printed credit "© FLASH" at lower left; no white border. No postmark — unused card with no handwriting. Divided-back linen-texture chrome card; blue imprint of C.T. Art-Colortone / Sanborn Souvenir Co., Denver, Colo.; card number 4A-H1856. Clean, light age toning only.

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Lake McDonald Hotel on Lake McDonald, Glacier National Park, Montana, circa 1940, postcard, c. 1930. PostalPast Collection. https://postalpast.com/postcard/lake-mcdonald-hotel-on-lake-mcdonald-glacier-national-park-m. Accessed October 25, 2026.