A vast sweep of eroded badlands fills the foreground of this breathtaking real-photo postcard — the corrugated golden hills of Zabriskie Point rolling toward the distant salt flats of Death Valley, while Telescope Peak crowns the Panamint Range on the horizon under a dramatic cloudscape that seems almost too cinematic to be real. Death Valley was established as a National Monument in 1933, and Frashers, Inc. of Pomona, California rushed to document its surreal geology for a tourist market hungry for Western wilderness imagery; this card is a masterwork of that effort, capturing the almost lunar landscape with the tonal depth that made Frashers silver-gelatin RPPCs prized by collectors. The penciled "3–" on the back indicates a former dealer's price, and the Frashers imprint confirms the Pomona publisher responsible for so many iconic California and Nevada scenic images of the mid-twentieth century.