Description
A long low hotel building with red roofs stretches across the foreground beneath a large rocky mountain. The scene includes a calm body of water or river in front of the building and a pale blue sky above. The architecture has an adobe or mission-style appearance with arches and a central tower-like section. The card is dated 1900s.
Front Text (verbatim):
13988 CARDENAS HOTEL TRINIDAD, COLORADO
COPR. DETROIT PUBLISHING CO.
Back Text (verbatim):
"PHOSTINT"
TRADE MARK – REG U S PAT OFF.
MADE ONLY BY DETROIT PUBLISHING CO
POST CARD
PLACE STAMP
HERE
UNITED STATES
AND CANADA
ONE CENT
FOREIGN, TWO
CENTS
THE CARDENAS AT TRINIDAD, built of
stone and concrete in the impressive style of the
Old California Missions, is named after Don
Garcia Lopez de Cardenas, a captain of Coron-
ado's army which left Mexico in 1540 on his
expedition of conquest. It is said that Cardenas
was the first white man to behold the Grand
Canyon of the Colorado River in Arizona. Trin-
idad is the largest wool and hide shipping point
in Colorado. It is the center of immense coal,
coke and iron industries. At Trinidad begins
the ascent of the Raton Pass.
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