This is an image of the existing Arts and Sciences Building on the campus of the University of Wyoming at Laramie.
There is no caption on the back of this card. The inscription at the bottom states: Liberal Arts Building – University of Wyoming – Laramie Wyo. / Sanborn Y-1996
The building was started in the late 1930s and is still used for the same purpose today, though the name has been updated to more typical usage. The Arts and Sciences Building is listed on a tour of historic sites on the campus, and the link above lists it as item number 10.
This image shows the gymnasium building on the Laramie campus of the University of Wyoming.
The L. L. Cook Co., Milwaukee
There is no caption on the back of this card. The inscription at the bottom states: Gymnasium – University of Wyoming Campus at Laramie
This building was constructed in 1925 to replace an older, smaller gym and itself was expanded to triple the size in 2017. Half Acre Gym is included on the list of historic locations and the building is number 15 in the link above.
The cars in the photo indicate this image dates from the 1940s.
This is an image of Knight Hall on the campus of the University of Wyoming in Laramie.
The L. L. Cook Co., Milwaukee
There is no caption on the back of this card. The inscription at the bottom states: Women’s Residence University of Wyoming Laramie Wyoming M6
While it is not made explicit, this building was also a women’s dormitory in its original design. Knight Hall still exists on the University campus. The link above includes several historic locations on the campus, Knight Hall is number 3.
This image is of Hoyt Hall, a women’s dormitory on the campus of the University of Wyoming in Laramie.
The L.L. Cook Co., Milwaukee
There is no caption on the back of this card. The inscription at the bottom states:
Hoyt Hall – Women’s Dormitory, University of Wyoming at Laramie / Sanborn Y-2266
Hoyt Hall still exists in its original form on campus, though it is used for a different purpose now. The link above has a list of historic locations on the University campus, Hoyt Hall is item #4.
This is an image of an early highway across the Snowy range in Wyoming, a northern extension of the Medicine Bow Mountains.
The L. L. Cook Co., Milwaukee
There is no caption on the back of this card. The inscription at the bottom states: Highway over the Snowy Range, Wyoming
On can immediately tell from the primitive nature of the highway construction that this is an early road, not one of the later graded, paved, shouldered and marked highways which would soon follow.
This is an image of the mountains known as the Snowy Range in Wyoming. It is the northern extension of the mountain complex known as the Medicine Bow Mountains.
The L. L. Cook Co., Milwaukee
There is no caption on the back of this card. The inscription on the front states: Part of Snowy Range from Highway between Rawlins and Laramie Wyoming M16
This is an image of the geological structure known as Enchanted Mesa. It is the legendary home of the Acoma people.
KODACHROME BY CHAS. HERBERT OF WESTERN WAYS–
The caption has been damaged and is partially readable: ENCHANTED MESA, New Mexico Legend has it that once Acoma Indians lived on this Mesa, but that an earthquake destroyed their entrance.
–The rest of the caption is unreadable. There is no remaining evidence of habitation on the top of the mesa today.
There is a note in the stamp area to use a 3 cent stamp for the postcard. This rate was only in force from August 1958 until January 1963, which dates the postcard within that range.
This image shows many parts of the Hoover Dam complex, including the face of the dam, the generator buildings, the outflow passages and other components.
Reproduced from Mike Roberts Kodachrome
The caption states: This spectacular view of Boulder Dam was taken from near river level downstream from the huge dam. Here flanked by towering canyon walls, the dam is seen in the distance. Boulder Dam, – the highest in the world – was built and is operate by the Bureau of Reclamation of the Department of the Interior. Rising 727 feet above bedrock the dam seems actually to be dwarfed by the surrounding canyon and mountains. IN the immediate foreground the Colorado River is seen as it continues its way below Boulder Dam, and on each side of the channel may be seen the “lower portals” of the diversion tunnels which carried the water around the damsite during construction.
–The dam was widely but informally known as Hoover Dam because it was funded and started during the Hoover administration. However, it was named Boulder Dam when completed during the Roosevelt administration, and was only formally renamed Hoover Dam in 1947.
Given the naming used here, it is likely this card dates from the 1940s.
This card has been trimmed sometime in the past, and the caption was removed, so the location cannot be identified with any certainty. It is strongly reminiscent of the Pacific coastline of the United States, but which of three states is impossible to determine.
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There is no text remaining on the back of this image. The unusual wide format is a result of having the sky trimmed off the top at some point.
