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Tree-in-the-Rock, Lincoln Highway, Wyoming, 1949

Subjects
Forests & TreesHistoric Trees
Card type
Real photo
Date
c. 1940 (Linen)
Front of Tree-in-the-Rock, Lincoln Highway, Wyoming, 1949, c. 1940 real photo postcard
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Back of Tree-in-the-Rock, Lincoln Highway, Wyoming, 1949, c. 1940 real photo postcard
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About this postcard

A pine tree grows from a cleft in a large boulder, ringed by an iron fence and marked by two signs, one reading "THE OLD PINE TREE" and one on a wooden frame reading "TREE IN THE ROCK." The printed caption calls it the famed landmark of the Lincoln Highway in Wyoming. Motorists crossing southern Wyoming on the Lincoln Highway, the country's first transcontinental auto road, treated the tree as a regular roadside stop. Ray and Lorraine Heist wrote to a friend in Reading, Pennsylvania, from their "expedition into the West," reporting a grand time and promising more word along the way.

Postcard Details

Message · English, in pen

Greetings, Miss Florence Wagner told us you might like to hear from us on our ex- pedition into the west. We are having a grand time and will keep you posted along the way Ray and Lorraine Heist

PublisherSanborn
Tree-in-the-Rock, the famed landmark of the Lincoln Highway, Wyo.
PostmarkedMedicine Bow, WY, October 18, 1949, 17:30
Stamp
Addressed to
Miss Arwilla Scott

1711 Perkiomen Ave Reading, PA

Postcard record

Postmarked, Medicine Bow, WY
PublisherSanborn
SeriesY-2165
ConditionVery good
Place addressedMiss Arwilla Scott, 1711 Perkiomen Ave, Reading, PA
Place depictedTree-in-the-Rock, WY
Place mentionedLincoln Highway, Kearny
Place mentionedWyoming, WY
Stamp1c George Washington, green, issued 1909
Stamp1c George Washington, green, issued 1938, perforated on all sides
NotesBlack-and-white real photo postcard with white border; printed caption and Sanborn logo/number on front. Postmark: MEDICINE BOW WYO OCT 18 5 30 PM 1949. Divided-back real-photo postcard with white border; message written in pen; 1c green Washington stamp affixed. Light soiling on back.

Cite this card

Tree-in-the-Rock, Lincoln Highway, Wyoming, 1949, postcard, c. 1940. PostalPast Collection. https://postalpast.com/postcard/tree-in-the-rock-lincoln-highway-wyoming-1949. Accessed November 2, 2026.