Later Color Post Cards

Vintage Later Color and Hand-tinted Photographic Postcards of Crater Lake

Many of these classic Crater images belong to the Crater Lake Institute collection

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Title (front): Crater Lake National Park, Oregon Back Caption: Crater Lake National Park, Oregon. Wizard Island lifts its sugar-loaf cone from the blue waters. Beyond is the rugged Llao Rock, 2000 feet above the lake in a dazzling winter scene, set off by fantastic figures of snow-encrusted trees parading on the white carpet in the foreground. Card Number(s): B2903 (back) Photographer: Josef Muench Publisher: The Continental card, Mike Roberts, Berkeley, Distributed by Crater Lake Lodge, Inc.
Title (front): Crater Lake National Park, Oregon Back Caption: Crater Lake National Park, Oregon. Wizard Island lifts its sugar-loaf cone from the blue waters. Beyond is the rugged Llao Rock, 2000 feet above the lake in a dazzling winter scene, set off by fantastic figures of snow-encrusted trees parading on the white carpet in the foreground. Card Number(s): B2903 (back) Photographer: Josef Muench Publisher: The Continental card, Mike Roberts, Berkeley, Distributed by Crater Lake Lodge, Inc.
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Back Caption: Crater Lake in Crater Lake National Park, Oregon. Reposing in the crater of a once gigantic volcano, the lake has a tremendous depth of 2,000 feet which accounts for its indigo blue color. Take Highway 97 from Bend or 99 from Medford. Card Number(s): No. 84 in Union Oil Company's Natural Color Scenes of the West Publisher: Copyright 1941 Union Oil Co. of Calif. Made in U.S.A.
Back Caption: Crater Lake in Crater Lake National Park, Oregon. Reposing in the crater of a once gigantic volcano, the lake has a tremendous depth of 2,000 feet which accounts for its indigo blue color. Take Highway 97 from Bend or 99 from Medford. Card Number(s): No. 84 in Union Oil Company’s Natural Color Scenes of the West Publisher: Copyright 1941 Union Oil Co. of Calif. Made in U.S.A.
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Title (front): The Phantom Ship, Crater Lake National Park, Oregon Back Caption: The Phantom Ship, Crater Lake National Park, Towering more than 165 feet above Crater Lake's blue, the Phantom Ship, formed by the volcano whose eruption created the lake, serenely withstands the centuries. Card Number(s): C26637 (back) Photographer: Mike Roberts Color Productions, Oakland, CA 94623 Publisher: Canyon Publishing Co., Canyonville, OR 97417
Title (front): The Phantom Ship, Crater Lake National Park, Oregon Back Caption: The Phantom Ship, Crater Lake National Park, Towering more than 165 feet above Crater Lake’s blue, the Phantom Ship, formed by the volcano whose eruption created the lake, serenely withstands the centuries. Card Number(s): C26637 (back) Photographer: Mike Roberts Color Productions, Oakland, CA 94623 Publisher: Canyon Publishing Co., Canyonville, OR 97417
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