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Evergreen Dam (Colorado, USA)
Dexter Press card 83661 (and #3086), unused, rounded corners, and Judy Kellogg’s name written in ink on the message panel. Were it not for that, the card would be as-new. However, Grade: 3
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Bull Shoals Dam (Arkansas, USA)
The reverse caption tells us this dam is across the White River, is 283′ high, 2,256′ long, and much more. What the caption doesn’t tell you, Google will. Grade: 2
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Sayers or Blanchard Reservoir and dam (Pennsylvania)
They couldn’t make up their mind? Unused Natural Color Card 125315 of this area, “being developed for recreational activities,” along U.S. 220 just off I-80 between Milesburg and Lock Haven, Pennsylvania. (All that is for the search engines, you know.) Grade: 1
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Hoover Dam (folio) (USA)
Two of these miniature (2-7/8″ x 4″) albums are available. Each was meant to be sent altogether as a souvenir. These date from the 1960s and each has ten “natural color album prints.” One album has a travel agency’s stamp on reverse (Grade: 4, $12) while the other is unmarked but upper right corners are bent a bit (Grade: 2, $16).
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Hoover Dam at night (USA)
Unused Ferris H. Scott / Western Resort Publications card S-4138L2-3 (and FS-755) with just one small corner crease. Grade: 2 -
Dam along the Chippewa River (Wisconsin, USA)
In honor of our friend Lin-Lee, who knows Eau Claire much better than we do, here’s an unused Curteichcolor card 6C-K2047. Grade: 2
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Grand Falls Dam and Falls, New Brunswick (Canada)
Unused UNIC card 34876-C (6202) with serrated edges. Grade: 2
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Hoover Dam
Aging unused Plastichrome card P27208 from the 1960s, and if you collect Hoover (Boulder) Dam cards, you can track the age by the cars parked down below. Grade: 1
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Grand Coulee Dam, Washington (Union Oil Company No. 36)
Over the years, Union Oil Company of California issued a series of cards (“See the West with 76 Gasoline”) depicting western U.S.A. landmarks. This unused card is one of those, from 1939. It’s special because it shows the dam under construction. Grade: 1
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Pozdrav z Lipna (Czech Republic)
Mailed in 2012 with two stamps, postmark, and blue Prioritaire label affixed. Admittedly you need to look for the dam, but it’s in there. Minor postal creasing. Grade: 2
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Hubei, Gezhouba Key Water Control (PR China)
Nice card in great condition mailed with two large stamps and full postmark in 2012. Grade: 1
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Grand Coulee Dam (Washington, USA)
Another card that will appear in many topical categories. Mailed in 2012, this has four different stamps and postal barcoding. All 16 of those attractions are identified on the reverse caption. Grade: 1
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Fort Loudon Dam (Tennessee, USA)
Unused linen card. Grade: 1
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Conchas Dam and Reservoir (New Mexico)
Linen card, Curteich-Chicago, mailed with two stamps and postmark in 1952. Grade: 3
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Irrigation Dam, Belle Fourche, Black Hills (South Dakota, USA)
Unused C.T.-American Art card 116391 with all you need to know right there on the front. Grade: 1
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Roosevelt Monument at Grand Coulee Dam (Washington, USA)
Mailed in 1955 with 2-cent stamp and full postmark. The Roosevelt here is Franklin, not Theodore. Grade: 2
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The Three Gorges Dam (PR China)
Issued by the PRC State Postal Bureau, with preprinted postage and three extra stamps, and three full, clear 2012 postmarks. Address label affixed. Grade: 4
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Wachusett Reservoir and Dam, Clinton (Massachusetts, USA)
C.T. American Art card A-56631, mailed during the 1920s with stamp and partial postmark. Grade: 2
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Grand Coulee Dam Spillway (Washington, USA)
Tichnor linen card 74190 mailed in 1950 with stamp and full postmark. Some postmark ink transfer on the front. Grade: 2
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Lake Ozark, Bagnell Dam (Missouri, USA)
Unused Curteich-Chicago card 38350-N that tells us something we didn’t know before this: at the time the card was printed, “The Lake of the Ozarks, created by the building of the dam, is one of the world’s largest wholly artificial bodies of water.” Grade: 1
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Storage Dam on Scioto River, Columbus (Ohio, USA)
Unused Curteich-Chicago linen card 2A-H750. Grade: 1
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Boulder Dam, Arizona Spillways and Lake
Unused J.T. Watters card 29067N, somewhat heavily handled and fingermarked on the reverse. Grade: 3
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Arrow Rock Dam, Boise River (Idaho, USA)
At the time, “one of the tallest dams in the world, 348-1/2 feet high.” Unused E.C. Kropp card 18965. Grade: 2
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Lexington Dam Near Los Gatos (California)
Unused Mike Roberts card C6919. Starting to age. Grade: 2
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Great Kentucky Dam and Lake, Paducah (Kentucky, USA)
Unused Curteich-Chicago linen card 6B-H2297, old and clean but significantly aged. Grade: 2
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Cushman Dam No. 1 (Washington, USA)
Unused Plastichrome card P16386, heavily handled over time. Grade: 3
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U.S. Government Dam and Locks No. 7, La Crosse (Wisconsin, USA)
Unused Dexter Press card 44995. Grade: 2
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U.S. Government Lock and Dam on the Mississippi River
We’re placing this unused Dexter Press card 6199B under “Wisconsin” because (A) similar structures are in Wisconsin, and (B) the postcard was made there. Grade: 1
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John Flannigan Dam, Haysi (Virginia)
We look at the photo on this unused Dexter Press card 19975-C but apart from the tower on the right we are struggling to see the dam. It must be there. The caption says so. Grade: 1
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St. Andrews Locks near Winnipeg, Manitoba (Canada)
Mailed in 1936 from Winnipeg with stamp and full postmark. Grade: 2
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Wolf Creek Dam (Kentucky, USA)
In the Lake Cumberland Recreational Area, this dam is 240′ high and more than a mile long. Unused Plastichrome card P19044, quite smudged on the reverse. Grade: 3
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Highway Crossing Fontana Dam (North Carolina, USA)
On an unused card dated 1956, at the time this was “the highest dam in Eastern America and is one of the largest in the world.” We didn’t know that. Minor smudging on the reverse. Grade: 2
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Bear Creek Canon, Dam and Lake at Evergreen (Denver Mountain Parks)
Unused card, very slightly abraded edges. Grade: 2
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Table Rock Dam and Lake (Missouri, USA)
Many statistics about this Ozarks area, across the White River, on this aging but unused Curteichcolor card O.287 (ODK-1788). Grade: 1
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The Storage Dam, Columbus (Ohio, USA)
Unused Valentine-Souvenir Co. card 21165, heavily handled and well-loved over the years. Grade: 3
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Kerr Dam Near Poulson, Montana (USA)
Unused Curteich-Chicago linen card OC-H159 (502). Grade: 1
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Hoover Dam (USA)
Not for the first time, a Hoover Dam postcard doesn’t say exactly where it is. The true caption is “Lake Mead and Hoover Dam”, and the reference to “the world’s highest dam.” Unused H.S. Crocker card CFS-1409. Grade: 1
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Greetings from Wichita Kansas – Little River Dam
This E.C. Kropp large letter card was mailed in what looks like 1946 (partly obscured postmark; stamp is there), and all of the attractions are identified in the caption on the back. Grade: 1
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Lake Powell, Glen Canyon Dam (Arizona, USA)
Though mailed, the US$1.05 stamp was not cancelled. Postal barcoding on front and back. Grade: 4
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Greetings from Arizona, Hoover Dam
Unused Scenic Art card 8964G, with all ten separate attractions identified in the caption on the back. That was kind of them, and lets us put this card into several categories. Grade: 1