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Tunnel on Skyline Drive, Shenandoah National Park, Virginia, circa 1940

Subjects
Forests & TreesNational & State Parks
Card type
Linen
Date
c. 1930 (White Border)
Front of Tunnel on Skyline Drive, Shenandoah National Park, Virginia, circa 1940, Marken & Biefeld, Inc., MD, USA, c. 1930 linen postcard
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Back of Tunnel on Skyline Drive, Shenandoah National Park, Virginia, circa 1940, Marken & Biefeld, Inc., MD, USA, c. 1930 linen postcard
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About this postcard

A stone-lined highway tunnel bores through a rocky, tree-covered cut along Skyline Drive, with the road surface and a glimpse of daylight at the far portal visible in the foreground. Skyline Drive, the scenic ridge road through Shenandoah National Park in the Blue Ridge Mountains, was built in the 1930s by the Civilian Conservation Corps and opened in stages before the park's dedication in 1936; its masonry tunnels and stone guard walls are characteristic of that Depression-era construction. The card's linen texture and caption style place it in the later 1930s-1940s.

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PublisherMarken & Bielfeld, Inc.
TUNNEL ON SKYLINE DRIVE, SHENANDOAH NATIONAL PARK, VA. --- POST CARD TUNNEL ON SKYLINE DRIVE SHENANDOAH NATIONAL PARK, VA. This interesting engineering work, about six hundred feet in length, is near the Lee Highway entrance to the skyline drive and at the very top of the blue ridge mountain over which the drive is built. MB Marken & Biefeld, Inc., Frederick, Md. 5A-H2123
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PublisherMarken & Bielfeld, Inc.
Series139
ConditionGood
PublisherMarken & Biefeld, Inc., Frederick, MD
NotesLinen-textured stock with a white border; card number 139 printed at lower right; light edge discoloration. No postmark — card is unused. Divided-back linen-texture card with printed caption and publisher imprint; front has a white border. Light toning and edge wear, small stain at top edge.

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Tunnel on Skyline Drive, Shenandoah National Park, Virginia, circa 1940, postcard, c. 1930. PostalPast Collection. https://postalpast.com/postcard/tunnel-on-skyline-drive-shenandoah-national-park-virginia-ci-1930. Accessed October 25, 2026.