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Southwest postcards
inventory

 © 1998 by Fort Lewis College Foundation, Center of Southwest Studies account (last revised 2007)     
                      Note: this is large!  it prints out as approximately 161 pages.

Links to contents
Preface

Guidelines for dating postcards
Introduction/
Scope and contents
Series descriptions

List of folders

Itemized list

 Administrative info

Center of Southwest Studies
collection inventories
Center of Southwest Studies

Digital images

Other postcard collections

Introduction/ Scope and contents

Southwest Postcards
 Years this material was created: 1904-2004 (bulk 1920-1991)
 Quantity: 1 linear shelf foot (nearly 600 postcards, in 55 folders in 2 card boxes and 1 thin document case) (85 of the cards are oversize)

This is the Southwest Studies Center's general collection of postcards.  The collection contains black and white as well as color post cards. 

Administrative information
Arrangement note:
The post cards are arranged geographically -- first by state, then by city or other geographical feature within that state.  An exception is some topically gathered postcards at both ends of the collection that pertain to Indians of North America and other topics.  Most topics, for example railroads, are not grouped together but rather are dispersed geographically, based on the location of the scene.

Postcard numbering scheme:
The individual postcards in this collection are numbered in a single numerical scheme beginning with 1 (the next available number to assign is 533).   These are the item numbers in the right-hand column of the descriptive list, below.   The folder numbers containing regular size postcards (in card file box #s 1 and 2) are in a single numerical sequence starting with 1.  The folder numbering for the oversize postcards (in box 3, a thin letter-size document case) also starts with 1.

Acquisition information:  
This is what is commonly known as an artificial collection -- comprised of acquisitions (primarily by gift) from various sources.

Processing information: 
Center of Southwest Studies student worker and Fort Lewis College student Debbie Doggett arranged and described this collection in September of 2000, under the supervision (and with the assistance) of archivist Todd Ellison.  This work included removing some photos from acidic cardboard backings to which they had been attached by the Center's first director, who had filed them in the general photograph collection; also, placing the postcards in Mylar Type D protective sleeves and placing everything in archival-quality enclosures.  Student archival assistant Haley Sladek cataloged all of the postcards in the Center's postcards database and updated their arrangement during the 2005/06 school year, and Gretchen Gray assisted with some aspects of the description in April of 2006.  This inventory was prepared by J. Todd Ellison, last revised in December of 2006; initial html conversion was by student archival assistant Jesse Davila on September 19, 1998.

Related collections:  A much larger collection of postcards of the Four Corners region, accessible digitally online, is the Nina Heald Webber Southwest Colorado collection.  See also the postcards in the R. H. "Bob" Tyner papers at the Center.

Series description

The items in this collection are in a single series of postcards.

Folder list

Links to sections of this list:

Greeting cards Native American Arizona California Colorado
New Mexico Utah Wyoming Other topics Oversize

 To search this list, you can do a keyword search of this file by using the Edit-> Find in Page (Ctrl+F) feature on your Web browser.

Box #

Folder

Folder title

Item #s

1

1

General greeting cards

1-11

1

2

Christmas greeting cards

12-26

1

3

General Arizona postcards

27-41, 385

1

4

Canyon De Chelly, Arizona

42-43

1

5

Montezuma’s Castle, Arizona

382

1

6

Window Rock, Arizona

383-384

1

7

Southwestern and Western Slope of Colorado

44-50,
376-377

1

8

Alamosa, Colorado

51-52

1

9

Balance Rock, Colorado

418

1

10

Box Canyon (Routt National Forest, Ouray, Colorado)

419-420

1

11

Cortez, Colorado

53-56

1

12

Dolores, Colorado

57-58

1

13

Durango, Colorado and surroundings (includes Electra Lake, Fort Lewis College, et al.)

386-417,
425, 524

1

14

Durango: Purgatory Ski Area

434-439

1

15

Engineer Mountain

451-454

1

16

Grand Junction, Colorado

421-423

1

17

Great Sand Dunes, Colorado

59

1

18

Lizard Head, Colorado

60-63

1

19

Maroon Bells, Colorado

425

1

20

Mesa Verde, Colorado

426-433

1

21

Mesa Verde, Colorado (continued)

71-75, 382

1

22

Million Dollar Highway in Southwestern Colorado

64-70

1

23

Nathrop and Chalk Creek Gulch, Colorado

76

1

24

Ouray, Colorado

440-447,
378-380,
531-532

1

25

Pagosa Springs, Colorado

448-450

1

26

San Juan Mountains, Colorado

79-80

1

27

Silverton, Colorado

81-93, 463

1

28

Telluride, Colorado

455-462

1

29

Trout Lake, Colorado

462

1

30

General Western Slope, Colorado

77-78, 94-99

1

31

Wolf Creek Pass, Colorado

100-104

Box #

Folder

Folder title

Item #s

2

32

General Front Range and the Eastern Plains of Colorado

464-466

2

33

San Luis Valley of Colorado (includes Buena Vista, Mount Harvard, Sangre de Christo Range between Canon City and Salida)

105, 372

2

34

Cascade, Colorado

106

2

35

Central City, Colorado

467

2

36

Colorado Springs, Colorado

107-119

2

37

Denver

120

2

38

Eldora, Colorado

121

2

39

Estes Park, Colorado

122

2

40

Loveland, Colorado

123-124

2

41

Pueblo Park of Red Rocks, Colorado

468

2

42

[empty folder; this folder number is available to use]

 

2

43

Aspen, Colorado

469

2

44

Cripple Creek, Colorado

125

2

45

Glenwood Springs, Colorado

126-133

2

46

Gunnison, Colorado (includes Black Canyon of the Gunnison)

134-135, 373

2

47

Leadville, Colorado

136-137

2

48

Pike’s Peak, Colorado

138-140

2

49

The Rockies of Colorado

141-143

2

50

Salida, Colorado

144

2

51

Unidentified, Colorado

145-150, 152-166

2

52

General New Mexico section

151, 470-474

2

53

Albuquerque, New Mexico

475-482

2

54

Aztec, New Mexico

483-484

2

55

Carlsbad, New Mexico

375, 485-486

2

56

Gallup, New Mexico

487, 167-180

2

57

Isleta, New Mexico

181-186

2

58

Santa Fe and Taos, New Mexico

488-492

2

59

Shiprock, New Mexico

493-497

2

60

Other locations section begins here:
[empty folder; this folder number is available to use]

 

2

61

[empty folder; this folder number is available to use]

 

2

62

Julian City, California

187

2

63

San Diego, California

188-194

2

64

Cheyenne, Wyoming

195-196

2

65

Nevada

508

2

66

 [empty folder; this folder number is available to use]  

2

67

Texas

198-205

2

68

General