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Postcard 1930s Linen Old Faithful Inn Lobby Yellowstone WY Haynes Curt Teich
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Linen · 1937

Postcard 1930s Linen Old Faithful Inn Lobby Yellowstone WY Haynes Curt Teich

Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, USA1937LinenGood

Bathed in warm artificial light, the cavernous lobby of the Old Faithful Inn pulses with the energy of dozens of Yellowstone sightseers gathered beneath the inn's famous 65-foot rhyolite stone fireplace — the clock mounted high on its face ticking away a moment frozen in the 1930s. This linen-era card, photographed under artificial light to capture the inn's dramatic interior atmosphere, was produced by Curt Teich & Co. of Chicago for Haynes Inc., the official Yellowstone Park concessionaire photographer, whose copyright appears twice on this card. The massive log-and-timber construction, multi-story balconies draped with branch-work railings, and amber globe lanterns glow with an almost cinematic warmth. The Old Faithful Inn, completed in 1904 and designed by Robert Reamer, is today a National Historic Landmark, making early interior views like this especially prized by collectors of both Yellowstone and American architectural history.

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PC-05635 · Haynes Inc. / Curt Teich & Co.
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