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Tunnel in Poudre Canyon, Colorado, circa 1940

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Mountains & HillsRivers & Streams
Card type
Linen
Date
c. 1930 (White Border)
Front of Tunnel in Poudre Canyon, Colorado, circa 1940, c. 1930 linen postcard
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About this postcard

A view up the Cache la Poudre River toward a small tunnel portal cut through the red sandstone cliffs of Poudre Canyon in northern Colorado. The river, broken by boulders and gravel bars, fills the foreground, with pine trees and wildflowers along the banks and rounded green-grey mountains rising beyond the canyon walls. The canyon road and its tunnel were part of the route into the Front Range west of Fort Collins, a popular scenic drive and fishing destination promoted on mid-century postcards.

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PublisherElmer C. Clark
TUNNEL IN POUDRE CANYON, COLORADO --- Westward from Fort Collins is the Cache la Poudre country. Here a band of French trap- pers, fearing their ammunition would be cap- tured by hostile Indians, buried their powder and gave the valley, the river, and the magnifi- cent canyon, the name they bear. And up Poudre Canyon, one winter, Kit Carson and his fur brigade trapped for beaver. 17159 Published by Elmer C. Clark, 739 Marion St., Denver, Colorado— Natural Color Post Card Made in U.S.A., by E.C.Kropp Co., Milwaukee, Wis.—DAL Post Card E C A NATURAL COLOR POST CARD K Co
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PublisherElmer C. Clark
ConditionVery good
Place depictedPoudre Canyon, CO
PublisherElmer C. Clark, Denver, CO
NotesLinen-textured stock with a visible crosshatch pattern; full-bleed image with no white border; caption printed in the sky area at top. No postmark. Divided back; linen texture; no white border; printed 'A NATURAL COLOR POST CARD' stamp box; publisher Elmer C. Clark, Denver; printed by E.C. Kropp Co., Milwaukee.

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Tunnel in Poudre Canyon, Colorado, circa 1940, postcard, c. 1930. PostalPast Collection. https://postalpast.com/postcard/tunnel-in-poudre-canyon-colorado-circa-1940. Accessed October 25, 2026.