Showing 601–640 of 889 postcards

  • California Natural Wonders, map

    Unused Colorscope card S-2027.  Grade: 1

    Code: 10105651

    Price: $2.00

    California Natural Wonders, map
  • California the Golden State (California Symbols)

    Unused Colorscope card S-2076.  Grade: 1

    Code: 10105652

    Price: $2.00

    California the Golden State (California Symbols)
  • Yosemite National Park, waterfalls

    All of these waterfalls and locations are identified in the caption on the reverse of this unused Colorscope card S-944.  Grade: 1

    Code: 10105653

    Price: $3.00

    Yosemite National Park, waterfalls
  • Mono Lake Tufa State Reserve

    Unused Colorscope card S-397.  Minor aging.  Grade: 1

    Code: 10105654

    Price: $2.00

    Mono Lake Tufa State Reserve
  • Bodie State Historic Park

    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

    Code: 10105655

    Price: $3.00

    Bodie State Historic Park
  • Donner Summit, Rainbow Bridge

    Unused Colorscope card S-23.  The bridge was completed in 1925, and the three-line caption gives a surprising amount of information.  Grade: 1

    Code: 10105656

    Price: $2.00

    Donner Summit, Rainbow Bridge
  • Sierra Nevada Wildlife

    Unused Colorscope card S-635, showing a black bear, a raccoon, a pair of coyotes, and a mountain lion.  Grade: 1

    Code: 10105657

    Price: $1.00

    Sierra Nevada Wildlife
  • Giant Sequoia, Sierra Nevada Mountains

    Unused Colorscope card S-4042, a giant among sequoia postcards (!).  Grade: 1

    Code: 10105658

    Price: $1.00

    Giant Sequoia, Sierra Nevada Mountains
  • Native American Dancer, Chief Lemee

    The Chief, whose real name prosaically was Chris Brown, was a Yosemite Miwok Indian who worked for the National Park Service.  Unused Colorscope card S-887.  Grade: 1

    Code: 10105659

    Price: $1.00

    Native American Dancer, Chief Lemee
  • San Francisco, Historic Streetcar No. 1057

    Beginning a series of unused cards issued by Market Street Railway.  This one shows No. 1057, ca. 1948 (the card is contemporary, however), honoring Cincinnati, Ohio, on San Francisco’s F Market Line.  Grade: 1

    Code: 10105660

    Price: $3.00

    San Francisco, Historic Streetcar No. 1057
  • San Francisco, Historic Streetcar No. 1050

    Continuing a series of unused cards issued by Market Street Railway.  This one shows No. 1050, ca. 1948 (the card is contemporary, however), on San Francisco’s F Market Line.  Slight smudging on the reverse.  Grade: 2

    Code: 10105661

    Price: $3.00

    San Francisco, Historic Streetcar No. 1050
  • San Francisco, Historic Cable Car No. 23

    Continuing a series of unused cards issued by Market Street Railway.  This one shows the cable car on the Powell & Hyde Line, with Alcatraz in the background.  Grade: 1

    Code: 10105663

    Price: $3.00

    San Francisco, Historic Cable Car No. 23
  • San Francisco, Historic Streetcars No. 162 and 130

    Continuing a series of unused cards issued by Market Street Railway.  This one shows two streetcars of ~1914 vintage on San Francisco’s F Market Line.  Grade: 1

    Code: 10105664

    Price: $3.00

    San Francisco, Historic Streetcars No. 162 and 130
  • San Francisco, Historic Streetcar No. 162 at Fishermans Wharf

    Continuing a series of unused cards issued by Market Street Railway.  This one shows #162, a streetcar of ~1914 vintage on San Francisco’s F Market Line.  Grade: 1

    Code: 10105665

    Price: $3.00

    San Francisco, Historic Streetcar No. 162 at Fishermans Wharf
  • San Francisco, Historic Streetcar No. 162 with Muni

    Continuing a series of unused cards issued by Market Street Railway.  This one shows #162, a streetcar of ~1914 vintage of San Francisco’s F Market Line fleet, with Muni Light Rail vehicles.  Grade: 1

    Code: 10105666

    Price: $3.00

    San Francisco, Historic Streetcar No. 162 with Muni
  • San Francisco, Historic Streetcar No. 1052

    Continuing a series of unused cards issued by Market Street Railway.  This one shows #1052, a streetcar of ~1948 vintage of San Francisco’s F Market Line fleet, honoring Los Angeles.  Grade: 1

    Code: 10105667

    Price: $3.00

    San Francisco, Historic Streetcar No. 1052
  • San Francisco, Historic Streetcar No. 1059

    Continuing a series of unused cards issued by Market Street Railway.  This one shows #1059, a streetcar of ~1948 vintage of San Francisco’s F Market Line fleet, honoring Boston.  Grade: 1

    Code: 10105668

    Price: $3.00

    San Francisco, Historic Streetcar No. 1059
  • San Francisco, Historic Streetcar No. 1888

    The last in our series of unused cards issued by Market Street Railway.  This one shows #1888, a streetcar from Milan of ~1928 vintage, shown at the Ferry Building.  Grade: 1

    Code: 10105669

    Price: $3.00

    San Francisco, Historic Streetcar No. 1888
  • Hometowns of California

    Unused Colorscope card S-2075.  Knowing California just a little, we might have tried harder to realign some of the towns’ names on the map, but it is what it is.  Grade: 1

    Code: 10105670

    Price: $2.00

    Hometowns of California
  • California Generic Post Card

    Not only generic, but of the genre of “lazy” cards where the sender can tick off a choice of answers from a selection on the back.  Unused.  Grade: 1

    Code: 10105671

    Price: $1.00

    California Generic Post Card
  • Placerville, Gold Bug Mine, Joshua Hendy Stamp Mill

    Unused Colorscope card S-458 with one of the more turgid captions we’ve seen.  The card is aging a bit more than others in the series.  Grade: 2

    Code: 10105672

    Price: $2.00

    Placerville, Gold Bug Mine, Joshua Hendy Stamp Mill
  • California Home Bargain

    We’re not listing this unused Colorscope card S-2088 in our “Comic” category because, to be sure, it’s not funny.  And it’s true.  Grade: 1

    Code: 10105673

    Price: $1.00

    California Home Bargain
  • Leggett-Garberville, ‘One-Log’ House

    Google tells us the house was moved from one town to another.  Well, it is on wheels after all.  Unused Mike Roberts card C3082, not mentioning either town.  Small stain on the reverse.  Grade: 3

    Code: 10105674

    Price: $2.00

    Leggett-Garberville, ‘One-Log’ House
  • Fiddletown, Chew Kee Store, Chinese Cue

    Unused, aging Dexter Press card 38627-C.  Dr. Yee’s office.  Grade: 2

    Code: 10105675

    Price: $2.00

    Fiddletown, Chew Kee Store, Chinese Cue
  • Fiddletown, Chew Kee Store, shrine

    Unused, aging Dexter Press card 38629-C.  Dr. Yee’s altar.  Grade: 3

    Code: 10105676

    Price: $2.00

    Fiddletown, Chew Kee Store, shrine
  • Coronado, Hotel Del Coronado, Crown Room

    Unused, aging, unattributed card possibly from the hotel.  Grade: 2

    Code: 10105677

    Price: $1.00

    Coronado, Hotel Del Coronado, Crown Room
  • Solvang, Living Room

    On this card mailed in 1960, with three-cent stamp and postmark, the following caption in its entirety:  “Living Room Patterned after Danish Provincial Interior.  By Ferdinand Sorensen Solvang.”  Grade: 1

    Code: 10105678

    Price: $0.50

    Solvang, Living Room
  • Santa Cruz, Natural Bridges State Park

    Unused H.S. Crocker card SC-140, minor mottling on the back.  Grade: 2

    Code: 10105679

    Price: $1.00

    Santa Cruz, Natural Bridges State Park
  • San Francisco, Golden Gate Park, Japanese Tea Garden

    Unused Mike Roberts card C2802.  Grade: 2

    Code: 10105680

    Price: $1.00

    San Francisco, Golden Gate Park, Japanese Tea Garden
  • San Gabriel, Mission Play Theatre Garden

    Unused and very old, but with a major crease vertically.  Grade: 4

    Code: 10105681

    Price: $0.50

    San Gabriel, Mission Play Theatre Garden
  • Muir Woods National Monument

    Unused, “local” card with a nifty little poem in the caption.  Grade: 1

    Code: 10105682

    Price: $1.00

    Muir Woods National Monument
  • Santa Cruz, West Cliff Drive

    Did you know that many varieties of Mesembryanthemums line the cliffs?  When we see photos like this, we recall similar places where houses slide down those cliffs during storms, and hope that has not happened here.  Unused H.S. Crocker card #SC-133.  Grade: 2

    Code: 10105683

    Price: $1.00

    Santa Cruz, West Cliff Drive
  • San Jose, St. Joseph’s Church

    Unused Mike Roberts card C7849.  Mildly aged.  Grade: 1

    Code: 10105684

    Price: $1.00

    San Jose, St. Joseph’s Church
  • San Fernando Mission, Wine Cellar Storage Area

    Unused Dexter Press card 41240-C, starting to age.  Grade: 2

    Code: 10105685

    Price: $1.00

    San Fernando Mission, Wine Cellar Storage Area
  • Sacramento Garden Center at McKinley Park

    Unused Mike Roberts card C1218.  Point to note:  the city of Sacramento established this facility for cooperative use of the city’s garden clubs.  Grade: 1

    Code: 10105686

    Price: $1.00

    Sacramento Garden Center at McKinley Park
  • Glendale, Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Wee Kirk o’ the Heather

    Unused linen C.T. Art-Colortone card 4A-H447, with a lot of information in a short caption on the back.  Grade: 1

    Code: 10105687

    Price: $1.00

    Glendale, Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Wee Kirk o’ the Heather
  • Bougainvillea and Cactus in a California garden

    Not postally used, but with a long pencilled notation on the back.  Grade: 5

    Code: 10105689

    Price: $0.50

    Bougainvillea and Cactus in a California garden
  • Yucca Valley, Desert Christ Park

    Like many such places, this has a history.  See Wikipedia … or buy the unused card, heavily smudged on the reverse.  Grade: 4

    Code: 10105690

    Price: $0.50

    Yucca Valley, Desert Christ Park
  • Donner Summit area in the High Sierras

    Unused Plastichrome card P50616 (V1037).  We drove through there once.  It was beautiful.  Make sure you have tire chains available no matter what month it is.  Grade: 1

    Code: 10105691

    Price: $0.50

    Donner Summit area in the High Sierras
  • San Jose, Egyptian Rock Tomb, Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum

    Unused Mike Roberts card SC2596.  Aging.  Grade: 1

    Code: 10105692

    Price: $0.50

    San Jose, Egyptian Rock Tomb, Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum