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Postcard 1920s Grand Canyon Hotel Lounge Yellowstone Park Haynes White Border
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Pre-linen · 1923

Postcard 1920s Grand Canyon Hotel Lounge Yellowstone Park Haynes White Border

Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, USA1923Pre-linenExcellent

Stepping inside the vanished Grand Canyon Hotel at Yellowstone, this vivid white-border card captures the vast timber-framed lounge — its soaring scissor-truss ceiling draped with slender lantern pendants, the floor alive with wicker chairs, tufted green armchairs, and low tables arranged for leisurely summer visitors who arrived by stagecoach and early automobile. The Grand Canyon Hotel, erected by the Yellowstone Park Association near the canyon's rim, was demolished in 1954, making interior views like this genuinely scarce documentary records of a lost landmark. Haynes, who served as the official photographer of Yellowstone National Park for decades, produced some of the finest souvenir card sets of the early twentieth century, and this example — crisp, unposted, and bright — represents the white-border era at its best.

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PC-05100 · Haynes, St. Paul
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