Sunrise over the summit of Pike's Peak, with a band of red and orange cloud across the sky above gray mist pooled in the valleys below. On the rocky top at lower right stand the summit house and a Manitou & Pike's Peak cog railway car trailing a plume of smoke. The rack railway, completed in 1891, carried tourists up to the 14,115-foot summit, and sunrise from the top was a standard souvenir view. The sender wrote from the summit itself, reporting that "The clouds are clearing away."
Postcard Details
Message · English, in pencil
Frid 13
I am writing
this from the top
of Pikes Peak. The
clouds are clearing
away.
Lovingly
Harry
PostmarkedColorado Springs, CO, July 13, 1923, 16:30
White border with wear, chipping and light staining along the top edge; grainy halftone screen visible throughout.
Postmark: COLORADO SPRINGS COLO. JUL 13 4:30 PM 1923. Divided-back "POST CARD" stock with 1-cent Washington stamp; pencil message; card shows edge wear, corner creases, and light soiling.
Cite this card
Sunrise on Pike's Peak, Colorado Springs, CO, 1923, postcard, c. 1923. PostalPast Collection. https://postalpast.com/postcard/sunrise-on-pikes-peak-colorado-springs-co-1923. Accessed November 2, 2026.
