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View of Bottomless Pit from Pike's Peak, Colorado

Subject
Mountains & Hills
Card type
Lithograph
Front of View of Bottomless Pit from Pike's Peak, Colorado, Colorado Springs, CO, USA, lithograph postcard
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Back of View of Bottomless Pit from Pike's Peak, Colorado, Colorado Springs, CO, USA, lithograph postcard
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Rocky, snow-streaked granite crags of the Bottomless Pit seen from the summit area of Pike's Peak, with distant mountain ridges and a pale blue sky beyond. The foreground rocks are rendered in warm brown and pink tones against patches of snow.

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8202. View of Bottomless Pit, from Pike's Peak, Colo. --- POST CARD THIS SPACE CAN BE USED FOR A WRITTEN MESSAGE, USING ONE-CENT STAMP UNITED STATES AND CANADA ONE CENT PLACE STAMP HERE FOREIGN TWO CENTS
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Postcard record

Series8202
ConditionGood
Place depictedPike's Peak, Colorado Springs, CO
NotesNo white border; printed caption in upper right; visible halftone/lithographic grain; light edge and corner wear. No postmark; unused card. Undivided-back imprint "THIS SPACE CAN BE USED FOR A WRITTEN MESSAGE, USING ONE-CENT STAMP" with stamp box "UNITED STATES AND CANADA ONE CENT / PLACE STAMP HERE / FOREIGN TWO CENTS" dates it c. 1901-1907. Light soiling and a faint pink smudge at lower left; no handwriting, stamp, or address.

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View of Bottomless Pit from Pike's Peak, Colorado, postcard, n.d.. PostalPast Collection. https://postalpast.com/postcard/view-of-bottomless-pit-from-pikes-peak-colorado. Accessed October 5, 2026.