The Monarch Petrified Redwood

Original Vintage Card

Price: $15.95

Stock #: 1028356

Type: Postcard

Era: Linen

City: Santa Rosa

State: California (CA)

County: Sonoma

Publisher: The Finest American Made View Post Cards--The Albertype Co., Brooklyn, N. Y.

Size: 3.5" x 5.5" (9 x 14 cm)

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A large petrified redwood behind a wire fence with a doorway cut into it. There is a sign above the door that reads "The Monarch. A Petrified Redwood. Cut Open in 1911. 65 ft. Circumference. Age 3000 Years. Admission 10¢.". Handwritten on back: "June 2 - 8, 1947"

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"MONARCH OR TUNNEL TREE" Discovered 1919. Estimated height about 300 feet, now evacuated 126 feet - 8 feet diameter. Age 3000 years. Buried six million years. The most complete and perfect Petrified Redwood Tree in the world at the PETRIFIED REDWOOD FOREST Santa Rosa, California 70 miles North from San Francisco. 12 miles North from Santa Rosa. 5 miles from Calistoga. THE FINEST AMERICAN MADE VIEW POST CARDS-THE ALBERTYPE CO., BROOKLYN, N. Y. June 2-8, 1947

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