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Bryce Canyon National Park, Utah


BRYCE CANYON National Park in south central Utah showing Temple of Osiris. Bryce is famous for grotesquely eroded, brilliantly colored rock pinnacles along the edge of an 8,000 ft. plateau. It should be seen together with Zion from U.S. 89 or 91.
Publisher: Union Oil Co. of California (founded in 1890)
American
1941

Medium/Technique Photochrome on card stock.
Dimensions Horizontal: 8.9 x 14 cm (3 1/2 x 5 1/2 in.)
Credit Line Leonard A. Lauder Postcard Archive—Gift of Leonard A. Lauder
Accession Number2015.10847
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPostcards

DescriptionBack: divided. Mint. [Printed advertisement for Union Oil Co.] SEE THE OLD WEST THIS YEAR WITH 76 GASOLINE
No.74 in UNION OIL COMPANY'S Natural Color Scenes of the West.
COPYRIGHT 1941 UNION OIL CO. OF CALIF. MADE IN U.S.A.
ProvenanceBetween 1950 and 2015, acquired by Leonard A. Lauder, New York, from various postcard dealers in Europe and the United States; 2015, gift of Leonard A. Lauder to the MFA. (Accession Date: September 24, 2015)