World's Biggest Penny

Monument to the "Penny Parade"

Woodruff, Wis.

 

Greetings from Bunker Hill

BUNKER HILL MONUMENT

Charlestown, Massachusetts

commemorates the Battle of Bunker Hill June 17, 1775. A trip up the spiral stairway to the top of this Boston premier attraction affords a breathtaking view of the city.

postmarked 1962

Artists Palette

DEATH VALLEY MONUMENT, CALIFORNIA

ARTIST'S DRIVE

This colorful formation seen along Artist's Drive is known as the Palette. Death Valley's variety of features and vividness of color is fabulous, the flamboyant coloring and unique beauty is in a setting that was millions of years in the making.

Information on the marker:

Various mineral pigments have colored these volcanic deposits. Iron salts produce the reds, pinks and yellows. Decomposing mica causes the green. Manganese supplies the purple. Colors on the "palette" are reproduced in a larger scale on the mountains around Death Valley.

color by Louis Bonetto
COPYRIGHT FERRIS H. SCOTT, SANTA ANA, CALIF.

Mount Rushmore National memorial

MT. RUSHMORE NATIONAL MEMORIAL

BLACK HILLS, SOUTH DAKOTA

This plaque erected on the viewing terrace brings a close up look of the memorial — The shrine of democracy.

Lincoln Memorial -- Springfield, Illinois

Bronze sculptured head of Lincoln shown with the renowned Lincoln Memorial at Springfield, Illinois. This famous site is reached from Chicago and St. Louis by Illinois Central's daily streamliner, the "Green Diamond."

Whispering Giant Native American Monument

TWO HARBORS, MINNESOTA

May the Great Spirit return our ancestral dignity & honor in hopes that we may find the fortitude to renew & preserve our lost culture. My good friend Jimmy Mustache, Running Elk, Ojibway Medicine Man. One monument for each of the 50 states, as gifts, to raise the nation's conscience to the plight of the American Indians. Created from white pine; circumference 132"; height 25'.

Winter Visits Mt. Rushmore

 

MT. RUSHMORE • BLACK HILLS, SO. DAK.

Winter comes to Mt. Rushmore just as it does to most sections of the U. S. A. This unusual view is seldom seen by out of state visitors.

Photo by Grant Heilman

Chimney Rock on the Oregon Trail

Standing alone in the vast prairie, Chimney Rock, near Bayard in Western Nebraska, guided the weary Oregon Trail travelers. Now a national monument, this wind-eroded sentinel serves as a landmark for the modern-day vacationers, reminding them of Nebraska's rich pioneer past.

Color photo courtesy Nebraska Game and Parks Commission, Lincoln, Nebraska

Viewing Mount Rushmore

"SHRINE OF DEMOCRACY"

Black Hills, South Dakota

Viewed from this vantage point the colossal monument carved on Mt. Rushmore is truly an inspiring tribute to individual American Freedom.

Lincoln Memorial - Summit Sherman Mtn.

Lincoln Memorial on U. S. 30 & Interstate 80 at summit of Sherman Mtn., between Laramie and Cheyenne, Wyoming. Elevation 8835.

Geographical Center of North America

A masonry monument made of glacial boulders erected near the point of the geographical center of the North American Continent, Rugby, North Dakota.