Cedar Breaks 1929 Menu Card

This UP lodge menu card shows “the painted buttresses of Cedar Breaks” National Monument. This particular image also appeared on page 21 of UP’s 1928 tour guide to the Southern Utah Parks.

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The colorists who turned the black-and-white photos into color lithographs often understated the real colors in these parks, probably because they had never actually seen them in real life. Below is one of my photos of Cedar Breaks, made a little more dramatic by the light snow and direct sun.


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