Vintage Pennsylvania Turnpike Bedford PA Photochrome Postcard 5.5x3.5 In

Vintage Pennsylvania Turnpike Bedford PA Photochrome Postcard 5.5x3.5 In

Used: Light corner and edge wear with slight rounding and light surface scuffing; faint horizontal gloss scuff across the center of the front image. Back is unposted with no writing or postal markings; light overall toning and small brown handling spots at lower-left and lower-center.

Approx. Measurements, see images.

Vintage color photochrome postcard featuring the Pennsylvania Turnpike near Bedford, Pennsylvania.

Front view shows a stretch of the Turnpike with an overpass/bridge at left, a farmhouse and outbuildings perched on a grassy embankment to the right, and vintage automobiles on the roadway; glossy finish.

Front/back caption: PENNSYLVANIA TURNPIKE "World's Greatest Highway". Convenient, neat, informational signs along the Pennsylvania Turnpike at strategic points keep the speeding motorist continually and easily informed, without referring to maps, as to just where he is and what is coming up ahead on this "World's Greatest Highway". Color photo by Herbert Lanks. Back printing includes: NATURAL Color K Card FROM KODACHROME; A MIKE ROBERTS COLOR PRODUCTION, BERKELEY 2, CALIF.; C6592; Howard Johnson Publishing Department, Bedford, Pa.

Type: Printed (Lithograph). Original. Size: Standard (5.5 x 3.5 in). Material: Cardboard. Features: Divided Back. Era: Photochrome (1939-Now). Subject: Pennsylvania Turnpike. City: Bedford, Pa.; Region: Pennsylvania; Country of Origin: United States; Continent: North America; Unit of Sale: Single Unit. Postage Condition: Unposted. No UPC/EAN present; see photos for exact details and design elements.

Light corner and edge wear with slight rounding and light surface scuffing; faint horizontal gloss scuff across the center of the front image. Back is unposted with no writing or postal markings; light overall toning and small brown handling spots at lower-left and lower-center.