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Six Vintage Colorado & Tennessee Postcards Set

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles Start Price:50.00 USD Estimated At:100.00 - 300.00 USD
Six Vintage Colorado & Tennessee Postcards Set
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For your consideration is a collection of six vintage Colorado and Tennessee postcards. This collection consists of five souvenir postcards in original shipping envelope for Colorado locations Leadville, Fort Collins, Moffat Road and Royal Gorge, as well as a postcard souvenir of lookout mountain and Chattanooga, Tenn which is published by Hardison & Bennet. The Moffat Road "Through the Continental Divide" indicated published by "H.H. Tammen Co., Denver" and is only the illustrated shipping envelope. It includes a nice write up of the history of the Moffat Road and Moffat Tunnel and shows beautiful photographs of South Boulder Creek and the Moffat Tunnel. This piece shows signs of age and has a few tears. The Royal Gorge "The World's Highest Bridge" shows a photo of a canyon railroad around a pinecone frame and a flower design and "from" section on the reverse. Inside this postcard set are beautiful color photographs of the Royal Gorge. The Leadville, Colorado "The Top of the World" souvenir folder shows a photo of Mt Elbert in a pinecone frame, and a flower design and "From" section on the reverse. Inside are numbered and named black and white photographs of the Leadville area. In this collection there are two Fort Collins, Colorado souvenir folders with a photograph of Poudre Canon on the front and flower design and "From" section on the reverse. Inside is are numbered and described black and white photographs of the Fort Collins area landscape and city buildings. These Colorado souvenir folders includea "Postage 1 cent without message" in the top right corner. Finally in this collection is a souvenir folder of Lookout Mountain and Chattanooga, Tenn. Inside are named, color photographs of building and landscapes including Wilder's Tower, The Hotel Patten, Chickamauga Park, and more. The photographs inside are an accordion fold, with a few detached from seem in the Tennessee folder. Each postcard in this lot measures approximately 4x6".