SD Postcard Collection—Badlands/Needles Highway, ca. 1950s
Unprocessed Material — Box: 08538 D
Identifier: H2020-051
Content Description
The collection consists of three real color postcards of the Needles Highway and Badlands dating to the 1950s. Image include a view of the “Fabulous Badlands of South Dakota,” the “Needle’s Eye Tunnel,” and “A Lofty Spire Viewed Along the Needles Highway” which is an image of the rock formation known as the Traffic Cop. A date, “August 1959,” is written in pen on the back of each postcard. The postcard notes Bob Young as the photographer with the postcards published by Dan Grigg Enterprises (Mitchell, S.D.).
Acquisition Type
Gift
Restrictions Apply
No
Dates
- ca. 1950s
Creator
- Grigg, Dan Enterprise Co.--Photo Studio (Mitchell, S.D.) (Organization)
Extent
0.1 Cubic Feet
- Badlands -- South Dakota. Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Needles Highway -- Black Hills -- South Dakota Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Photograph Collection -- Manuscript Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Postcards Subject Source: Local sources
- Tourism -- South Dakota Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
