Volume 6: Other Southwest Colorado Areas

From Montrose to Cortez to Pagosa Springs, southwest Colorado includes many towns with interesting history, significant natural and cultural resources, and other facets that have been pictured on postcards.


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Four Corners
Color lithograph photo print. Image of an aerial view directed downward over the Four Corners monument and the surrounding road.
Four Corners area - Arizona-Colorado-New Mexico-Utah
Color lithographic photo print image Several figures standing at eh center of a three tier forum. The flags of the United States, Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, and Utah fly in the desert wind against a partly cloudy sky.
From Slumbullion Pass, Lake City, Colo.
A black and white postcard of a road with trees surrounding it and a mountain range in the background.
Frontier Motel Cortez, Colorado
A color postcard with two separate pictures. The picture on the bottom is of a long building that has several doors and several windows. In the top picture there are several lounge chairs set up and a swing set. In both pictures there are some clouds in the sky.
Frontier Motel in Cortez, Colorado.
A color postcard of a long building.
Grand Ave. Looking West, Mancos, Colo.
A sepia postcard of a street with buildings lining the sides and a pole in the center.
Grand Ave. looking East, Mancos, Colo.
A sepia postcard with streets that are lined with brick buildings and one car on the left, and a building and trees on the right side. More buildings line the street in the background.
Greetings from Colorado
Lithograph print of an illustrated map of Colorado, with the state flag at upper left. A variety of icons are drawn to highlight important tourist attractions: including skiers, a bucking bronco rider, wheat, oxen, cliff dwellings, the capitol, mining car, a lumber jack, oil wells, and mountains.
Greetings from our house to your house
Color lithographic photo print of a red pigsty. An adult peers out of the building, piglets at left of the fenced area. Attached to the roof of the sty; a black pig shaped sign reads "Hogs are beautiful" in white lettering.
Gunnison River.
Black and white postcard of a river with a road to the left. There are mountains on both sides of the river.
Hanson Falls, Lake City, Colorado
View of a waterfall cascading down steep, mossy rocks into a pool with a rainbow appearing in the spray at the bottom.
Helping hand
A color painting on a postcard of a women riding a horse with cattle next to her. There are mountains in the background.

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