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The Red Gorge
The Red Gorge is 55 miles north of Vernal, and when they took this picture, the “great Flaming Gorge Dam is being constructed just a little below this point.” The card itself is unused and has a large, circular, purple chop from Dinosaur Land, of Vernal, which must be where the card was bought. Grade: 1
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Salt Lake City, The Mormon Battalion Monument
Unused Plastichrome card P29152, aging somewhat. Grade: 2
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Salt Lake City, Great Mormon Tabernacle and Sea Gull Monument
Unused C.T. American Art Colored card 55876 (544). Grade: 1
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Salt Lake City, Mormon Temple and Tabernacle (Union Pacific Railroad)
Union Pacific prepared a series of cards highlighting their destinations and transit points. Each of the cards in the extended series has Union Pacific’s logo on the reverse. Unused card 88363. Grade: 1
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Salt Lake City, Covey’s New America Motor Lodge and Coffee Shop
Unused linen Curteich Chicago “C.T. Art-Colortone” card 2C-H542. Grade: 1
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Price, Roadside Geyser
No, not Yellowstone. This less-famous version “Periodically erupts carbonated water” up to 100′ high. (Bring ice.) Unused Petley card 6201 with a significant crease on lower left corner. Grade: 4
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Salt Lake City, Eagle Gate
Unused, undivided back Frank H. Leib card No. 952. Aged, and more staining on the front right than on the back. Grade: 3
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Salt Lake City, Eagle Gate 7004
Mailed in 1912, with stamp and postmark overlaid on the heavy “Post Card” graphic. A bit of postmark ink transfer on the front. Grade: 3
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Zion National Park, Great White Throne
Very old, unused, real-photo card issued by Utah Parks Company for Union Pacific Railroad, whose logo is on the reverse. Minor staining on the back as well. Grade: 2
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Bryce Canyon National Park, The Great Cathedral
Very old, unused, real-photo card issued by Utah Parks Company for Union Pacific Railroad, whose logo is on the reverse. Grade: 1
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Bryce Canyon National Park, The Pope
Very old, unused, real-photo card issued by Utah Parks Company for Union Pacific Railroad, whose logo is on the reverse. And upside down. Grade: 1
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Bryce Canyon National Park, From Sunset Pt.
Very old, unused, faded, real-photo card issued by Utah Parks Company for Union Pacific Railroad, whose logo is on the reverse. And upside down. Grade: 1
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Bryce Canyon National Park, Queen Victoria
Very old, unused, faded, real-photo card issued by Utah Parks Company for Union Pacific Railroad, whose logo is on the reverse. Grade: 1
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Mexican Hat, The Great Goosenecks of the San Juan
“Deep in the uranium country of Monument Valley”! As if we needed that special reason to visit. This unmailed Bob Petley “Natural Color Card” has a confusing little note written into the message area, but was not postally used. Grade: 3
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Zion National Park, View from the West Rim
Unused, aging (and old) postcard. Grade: 2
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Navajo Lake
Unused Mike Roberts card C6628 of this lake 30 miles east of Cedar City, near Cedar Breaks National Monument. Grade: 1
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Salt Lake City, Temple Square, Handcart Pioneer Monument
Unused Mike Roberts card C4801. Grade: 1
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Salt Lake City, L.D.S. Tabernacle
Unused Mike Roberts card C749. Grade: 1
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Salt Lake City, Interior of Great “Mormon” Tabernacle
Unused Curteich-Chicago card 1A218 (#599) showing the pipe organ at that time “conceded to be the peer of, if not superior to, any pipe organ in existence”. Grade: 1
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Salt Lake City, The Tabernacle Choir and Organ
Unused Curteich-Chicago linen card 8A-H2434 (#905), dated 1938 and with a long caption on the reverse. Grade: 1
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Surf Riding on Great Salt Lake
Unusual–maybe not then, certainly now. The caption hints at this! There’s also a large circular logo printed near the caption, and it says “See Europe if you will … But see America first”. This almost certainly dates the unused card as late 1940s. Grade: 2
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Bryce Canyon National Park, Thor’s Hammer
Mailed with $1.05 stamp, postmark, and postal abrasions. Grade: 4
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Bryce Canyon National Park
Unused. Grade: 1
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Salt Lake City, State Capitol
Unused Eric J. Seaich card 71769, abraded on the front. Grade: 4
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Salt Lake City, Main Street at Night
Unused H.S. Crocker card ES-35, with Salt Lake City “long recognized as a most beautiful city”. Grade: 1
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Salt Lake City, Monument to Brigham Young and the Pioneers
Mailed in 1908, with postmark and stamp. The card is very heavily aged, but of course it is very old too. Grade: 3
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Salt Lake City, Tobacco Counter, Post Exchange, Army Air Base
Unused E.C. Kropp card 13062N. Grade: 1
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Salt Lake City, Temple Square
Unused Mike Roberts card C743, from early 1960s or before, describing the “spired ‘Mormon’ Temple which required forty years of pioneer labor to build, and the domed Tabernacle”. They were offering free guided tours. Still true? Grade: 1
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Salt Lake City, Brigham Young Monument
Unused Mike Roberts card C13336, describing Brigham Young as “a leading figure in the forming of the West”. Grade: 1
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Salt Lake City, Mormon Tabernacle
In this unused and very old postcard we have two “…est” examples in the reverse caption: “one of the largest structures for religious worship in the World,” and “one of the finest pipe organs in existence”. Not being certain of the current status, we’ll just advise you to notice the significant remnant of tape along the card’s left edge. Note too that these older cards didn’t worry about putting “Mormon” in quotation marks. Grade: 3
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Bryce Canyon National Park, Aqua Point
A view from Rim Point on this unused Plastichrome card P43983. Grade: 1
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Arches National Monument
This was a national monument when the unmailed card was printed, but “Administered by the National Park Service, the area was originally named a national monument on April 12, 1929, and was redesignated as a national park on November 12, 1971”. (Wikipedia) Though unmailed, there’s some writing and another smudge near the caption area. Grade: 3
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Salt Lake City, The Mormon Temple
Unused, ancient E.C. Kropp postcard 16613, with a crease in the far upper right corner. Grade: 2
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Salt Lake City, Mormon Temple
What distinguishes this unused Mike Roberts/Wesco Color Card C-20 is not so much the subject or even the (good) condition, but a small wartime logo in the lower left reverse, part of the card, showing warplanes and the legend “Keep em Flying” … at least we think that’s what it says, and it helps date the card as somewhere between 1942 and 1945. Grade: 1
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Salt Lake 2002 Olympics, Alpine Events
Unused. Grade: 1