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Banff (Alberta), Mount Temple and Paradise Valley (Canada)
This was about as generic an old real-photo card as one could find, but a little search engine work places the location in Banff. Unused, faded old card printed by Gowen Sutton in Vancouver. Grade: 1
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Yellowstone National Park, Grand Canyon, Artist Point (Wyoming, USA)
Unused, old, B&W Haynes real-photo card 28328. Grade: 1
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Yellowstone National Park, Kepler Cascade (sic) (Wyoming, USA)
Unused Haynes real-photo card 23443 with minor age foxing on the reverse. Wikipedia tells us that “Kepler Cascades is a waterfall on the Firehole River … approximately 2.5 miles south of Old Faithful. The cascades drop approximately 150 feet over multiple drops. The longest drop is 50 feet.” Grade: 2
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Bodie State Historic Park (California)
Ghost towns are like lighthouses: they are all “the best” or “the oldest” or the most of something. This one is no exception: “The best all-around ghost town in the West,” according to the unused Colorscope card S-308 caption. Grade: 1
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Yellowstone National Park, Yellowstone Rapids (Wyoming or Montana, USA)
Our apologies: we don’t know whether this scene is in Wyoming or Montana. (It may only matter to a select few.) Unused Haynes B&W real-photo postcard 36167 with minor smudging on the reverse. Grade: 2
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Langley (BC), Fort Langley National Historic Park (Canada)
Unused Traveltime card SS-2884 showing fur trade equipment in the old Hudson’s Bay Company Store. Grade: 1
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Glacier Park, Red Jammer busses (Montana, USA)
Mailed in 2013 with a round “Global Forever” stamp, full postmark, and some postal abrasion. Grade: 3
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Swiss National Parks (folded Maximum Card style)
Given limitations of the scanner, what we’ve done is opened up this card to its full length (13-3/4″. x 5-1/2″) and then re-folded the smallest page so you can see both stamps. The other side is fully printed with information in German, French, Italian, and English about the 100th anniversary of Swiss National Park in 2014. So this is not a postcard by the usual definition. Just so you know. We have not added any additional folds to those that were there when we got this. Ungraded.
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Yellowstone National Park, Norris Geyser Basin (Montana, USA)
Unused card 80399 (C-1923). Grade: 1
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Entrance to Custer Battlefield National Monument (Montana, USA)
We went there once, on a dreary day. You need to know your history. It’s eerie. Unused card 49546 (C-1871) from Billings News Agency. Grade: 1
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Santa Cruz, Natural Bridges State Park (California)
Unused H.S. Crocker card SC-140, minor mottling on the back. Grade: 2
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Letchworth State Park, Finger Lakes (New York)
Mailed in 2013 with round Global Forever stamp, postmark, and mailing label attached. Grade: 4
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Itasca State Park, Headwaters of the Mississippi River (Minnesota, USA)
Unused Curteichcolor card 3C-K918. Grade: 1
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Buy Two – Keep One (Glacier National Park, USA)
Our caption is the card’s caption. Further detail from this unused Dexter Press card 79783: “…Little Chief and Citadel Mountains reflected in serene St. Mary Lake, Glacier National Park, Montana.” Grade: 1
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Glacier National Park, St. Mary Lake (Montana, USA)
Unused Dexter Press card 25166-B (A-104). Some smudging on the reverse. Grade: 2
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Two Medicine Peak & Lake, Glacier Park (Montana, USA)
Unused, “local” and aging card 26026. Grade: 3
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Mt. Rainier National Park (Washington, USA)
Unused Curteichcolor card 2DK-550 (62-1), aging. Grade: 2
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Copper Falls State Park, Bad River Canyon (Mellen, Wisconsin, USA)
Unused, aging Curteichcolor card 3C-K2654 (E-120). Grade: 2
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Grand Teton National Park, Teton Range (Wyoming, USA)
Unused Dexter Press card 69058 (#4161), rounded corners and beginning to age. Grade: 1
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Square Top Mountain, Bridger National Forest (Wyoming, USA)
Unused card, part of the American Scene Collection from American Oil Company (and “See the U.S.A. in a Chevrolet”) in 1969. Grade: 1
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Yellowstone National Park, Lake Shore Drive along Shoshone Reservoir (Wyoming, USA)
Unused Dexter Press card 50588 (#3906), heavily handled and smudged over the years. Rounded corners. Grade: 3
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Jasper Park (Alberta), Ice Pinnacle (Canada)
Technically it’s a serac, on this unused old card. Grade: 1
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Glacier National Park, Going-to-the-Sun Mountain (Montana, USA)
Unused H.S. Crocker card C-12. Aging noticeably. Grade: 3
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Banff National Park, Banff Springs Hotel (Canada)
Unused. Grade: 1
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Yellowstone National Park, Natural Bridge (Wyoming, USA)
Unused Haynes real-photo card 23447, beginning to show its (old) age, but otherwise clean. Grade: 1
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Yellowstone National Park, Gibbon Falls (Wyoming, USA)
Unused Haynes real-photo post card 10088. Online sources call Gibbon Falls one of those in Yellowstone that visitors can enjoy “with little effort”. Grade: 1
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Kaibab National Forest, White-tail Kaibab Squirrel (USA)
Unused card 122325 issued by Union Pacific Railroad to commemorate locations and routes its tours took. UPR logo on the reverse. Aging. Grade: 2
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Yellowstone National Park, The Great Falls (Union Pacific) (Wyoming, USA)
From Union Pacific Railroad’s series, this is unused card 81900, with large logo on the back. Grade: 1
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Custer State Park, Blue Bell Lodge, day (South Dakota, USA)
Unused, real-photo card with some smudging on the reverse. The companion card to 31100374K. Grade: 2
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Custer State Park, Blue Bell Lodge, night (South Dakota)
Unused, real-photo card. The companion to 31100373K. If you’d like both, you can have them for $5. Grade: 1
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Hawksbill Crag at Buffalo River National Park (Arkansas, USA)
Unused card. Grade: 1
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Bennett Spring State Park (Lebanon, Missouri, USA)
“Bennett Spring emerges with 71 million gallons of cold, clear water daily, providing a popular trout fishing stream,” according to this unused card’s caption. Grade: 1
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New Salem State Park, Onstot’s Cooper Shop and Residence (Illinois)
An elaborate caption on the back of this unused linen Curteich-Chicago card 0B-H1905 explains everything. And more. Grade: 1
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New Salem State Park, Interior, Onstot’s Residence (Illinois, USA)
An elaborate caption on the back of this unused linen Curteich-Chicago card OB-H1906 explains everything. And more. Grade: 1
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Scenic areas (set of four) (Thailand)
A set of four unused cards issued by Thailand Post, in their original packaging. As examples, two of the depicted areas are Phu Cheefa Park (Chiangrai) and Sam Phan Bok – “The Grand Canyon of Thailand” – in Ubon Ratchatani. Three sets are available. Grades: 1
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Spring Mill State Park, Mitchell (Indiana, USA)
A soldier just discharged, and a happy wife writing in 1946 during the reunion. Stamp and postmark OK. Grade: 2
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Starved Rock State Park (Illinois, USA)
Unused E.C. Kropp vintage postcard 23925-8 with ten views identified in the caption. Grade: 1
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Hot Springs National Park, Indian Mountain (Arkansas, USA)
Unused Plastichrome card P97018, with top and bottom perforated edges, so it came from a linked set. Grade: 3
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Teton National Park, Mt. Moran (Wyoming, USA)
Unused Mike Roberts card C3194, showing Mt. Moran and the Snake River. Grade: 2
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The Badlands National Monument – Prehistoric Graveyard, Fossil Beds (South Dakota, USA)
An old, unused Albertype “Handcolored” card issued before they thought stock numbers would be necessary. Grade: 2