Real Photo Postcards of Feather River Canyon

All but one of yesterday’s postcards were lithographically printed based on black-and-white photos. Today’s cards are black-and-white photos themselves. I usually prefer color, but after studying the often muddy and sometimes heavily retouched pictures from yesterday there’s something refreshing and crisp about these black-and-white photos.

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The caption says “near Oroville,” so this is the lower canyon, and probably is flooded today by Oroville Dam. The caption also says “on line of WESTERN PACIFIC RAILROAD,” so the card was probably issued with WP’s help or sponsorship.


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The arch bridge above the railroad was built in 1932 about two miles downriver from the Tobin Bridges shown on one of yesterday’s cards. That means this and most of today’s other postcards probably date from the 1930s. Real photo postcards were first published long before that, but most of these are better quality than the early cards.

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This card says “near Belden,” and the tunnel at the center of the photo may be the same tunnel in yesterday’s Belden card.


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Williams Loop is located between the Feather River Canyon and the lakes country shown in a couple of yesterday’s cards. It isn’t as well known as Tehachapi Loop, probably because part of it is obscured by trees and so it isn’t as well photographed. This is the only real photo card presented today that doesn’t say “on line of Western Pacific,” so it was from a different publisher.


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The attractive-looking Feather River Inn opened in 1915 near the lake country shown in a couple of yesterday’s postcards. It still exists today, though it is currently closed for renovations, the pandemic, or both.


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