Large sand dunes rise from a flat desert floor, their sunlit crests cutting sharp shadows across the slopes. The dunes recede toward a pale sky. The view is on Highway 80 in Imperial County, California, a stretch of U.S. Route 80 that carried motorists between San Diego and the Imperial Valley before Interstate 8 replaced it. The Imperial Sand Dunes are a broad field of wind-built dunes in the Colorado Desert, and views like this showed travelers the scale of the open desert.
White border around a black-and-white photographic print; printed caption on front reads 'SAND DUNES ON HIGHWAY 80 / IMPERIAL COUNTY, CALIF.'; no publisher or series line.
No postmark. Divided-back real-photo postcard with EKC (Eastman Kodak) stamp box; white border; unused — no address, no message, no stamp. Handwritten 'RMLJ 3-' (likely dealer/collector inventory mark) in upper left corner.
Cite this card
Sand dunes on Highway 80, Imperial County, CA, circa 1930, postcard, c. 1930. PostalPast Collection. https://postalpast.com/postcard/sand-dunes-on-highway-80-imperial-county-ca-circa-1930. Accessed November 2, 2026.
