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SEQUOIA NATIONAL PARK, California, on the western slopes of the Sierra Nevada Mountains, is world-famed for its forests of California Big Trees. Lying to the east of U.S. Highway 99 the park is reached from the south over State Highway 198 or from the north over State Highway 180.
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Sequoia National Park, California
SEQUOIA NATIONAL PARK, California, on the western slopes of the Sierra Nevada Mountains, is world-famed for its forests of California Big Trees. Lying to the east of U.S. Highway 99 the park is reached from the south over State Highway 198 or from the north over State Highway 180.
Publisher: Union Oil Co. of California (founded in 1890)
American
1948
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 Number2015.11195
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAmericas, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPostcards
DescriptionBack: divided. Mint. TOUR THE WEST THIS YEAR WITH 76 UNION GASOLINE
UNION OIL COMPANY'S Natural Color Scenes of the West.
MADE IN U.S.A.
UNION OIL COMPANY'S Natural Color Scenes of the West.
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)