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Brookings, South Dakota State College, Armory
Unused real-photo card. It’s not easy to see, but there is a white-on-white caption on bottom front. Grade: 1
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Brookings, South Dakota State College, West Gate
Unused real-photo card. Grade: 1
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Brookings, South Dakota State College, Coolidge Sylvan Theatre
Unused real-photo card. It’s not easy to see, but there is a white-on-white caption on bottom front. Grade: 1
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Brookings, South Dakota State College, Campus View
Unused real-photo card. It’s not easy to see, but there is a white-on-white caption on bottom front. Grade: 1
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Brookings, South Dakota State College, The Campanile
Unused Albertype card, unnumbered. Grade: 1
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Brookings, South Dakota State College, Coolidge Sylvan Theatre and Library
Unused Albertype Co. card. Grade: 1
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Brookings, High School
Unused real-photo card with a nearly invisible caption on the bottom front. The card has been folded in half, once, and while it is not noticeable from the front, it is from the back. Just so you know. Grade: 3
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Brookings, Public School Buildings
Albertype Co. card, not postally used but with Howard G.’s name typed in the upper left reverse. Grade: 3
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Brookings, Court House
Real-photo card, not postally used but with Howard G.’s name typed in the upper left reverse. Grade: 3
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Brookings, Post Office
Unused Albertype Co. card. Grade: 1
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Badlands
Sitting here in crowded Hong Kong, we love this stark scene, which reminds us of the introduction to the original “Twilight Zone” TV series — if that introduction had been during the day. Anyway, it’s an unused Dexter Press card 10×43989-B, produced in cooperation with the famous Wall Drug. Grade: 2
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Near Pinnacle Hill, Badlands National Monument
Unused Dexter Press card 18835-C. Aging but clean. Grade: 1
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The Badlands National Monument – Prehistoric Graveyard, Fossil Beds
An old, unused Albertype “Handcolored” card issued before they thought stock numbers would be necessary. Grade: 2
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The Badlands National Monument – Coyote Canyon
An old, unused and aging Albertype “Handcolored” card issued before they thought stock numbers would be necessary. Grade: 2
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The Badlands National Monument – “Ocean that Never Saw Ships”
An old, unused and aging Albertype “Handcolored” card issued before they thought stock numbers would be necessary. Grade: 2
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Interesting Scene in one of the Numerous Caves In the Black Hills
Unused linen Curteich-Chicago card 0C-H202, but also unusually heavily aged on the reverse. Grade: 3
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Black Hills, Shrine in Stone Frame
Look closely. It took us awhile to see what was special about this photo of the “Shrine of Democracy” but we finally got it. Unused Plastichrome card P14644. Grade: 1
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Black Hills, Mount Rushmore, Shrine of Democracy
Unused Dexter Press card 30731-B. Grade: 2
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Black Hills, Needles Eye
Unused but highly aged Plastichrome card P10240. Grade: 2
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Pierre, State Capitol
Unused Plastichrome card P9734. Grade: 1
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Pierre, State Capitol Building
Unused Mike Roberts card B1445, serrated edges and beginning to show its age. Grade: 2
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Mt. Rushmore National Monument
We hope the Monument will remain as “imperishable” as the caption on this unused Dexter Press card 80774-B promises. Slight aging. Grade: 1
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Shrine in Stone Frame
In the pantheon of Mount Rushmore postcards, here’s one where you can’t really see it, through the tunnel in the Black Hills. Unused “local” card DK-124. Grade: 1
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Sunset at Mt. Rushmore
Mailed in the 1970s, with 15-cent stamp and faint postmark and airmail sticker. Serrated edges. Is there room for one more head? Grade: 1
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Mount Rushmore National Memorial
Unused Mike Roberts card C19208 (B-65) whose captions on the front and back are the same. Grade: 1
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Mt. Rushmore
Nice close-up view on an unused, older card whose caption misspells the first name of the sculptor, Butzon (sic) Borglum. Grade: 1
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Mt. Rushmore
Did you ever wonder where the name “Rushmore” came from? Wikipedia tells us (condensed): “Beginning with a prospecting expedition in 1885 with David Swanzey (husband of Carrie Ingalls), and Bill Challis, wealthy investor Charles E. Rushmore began visiting the area regularly on prospecting and hunting trips. He joked with colleagues about naming the mountain after himself. The United States Board of Geographic Names officially recognized the name “Mount Rushmore” in June 1930.” It had various other names before that, and joking with friends hardly seems like a valid basis to rename a mountain, but there you go. We have two of these unused Dexter Press cards 30863-B. Grades: 1
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Official Photographs of Mount Rushmore (set)
Several cautions for you here, so please note: our scan shows you the somewhat tattered front paper cover of this set. It says there are nine photos. *BUT* the set had been opened long ago, and re-sealed itself, and we cannot and would not guarantee all nine photos are there. We’re certain there are more than one. And we take them at their word that these are “photos” and may not be postcards at all. With all that out of the way, this is definitely old and we like the instruction they provide, that this was produced “to further a correct interpretation of this Memorial”. (How could it be misinterpreted? That the four Presidents were Buchanan, Harding, Tyler, and Fillmore?) We will assign Grade: 2