Antique & Vintage Postcards

Inside the low round chamber at the base of Mary Colter's iconic Desert View Watchtower, cowhide-draped chairs and rough-hewn log furniture ring a stone fireplace while a lone silhouetted figure gazes out through the sweeping canyon-view windows — a scene that collapses the prehistoric and the modern into a single sun-drenched room. This linen-era Fred Harvey card documents the Kiva exactly as Colter designed it in 1932: forty feet in diameter, half-buried in green-stained Canyon boulders, its every detail evoking the ceremonial chambers of the ancestral Puebloans, yet opened to the panorama by great plate-glass windows that no ancient Kiva ever held. The card's reverse text captures the building's dual identity perfectly, and the bright linen palette — amber stone, turquoise sky framed in the windows, warm ochre flagging — gives the interior an almost mythic warmth. Unused and clean.