Recto:

l.l. printed: LA BAJADA HILL, NEAR SANTA FE, NEW MEXICO.

Verso:

u.l. printed: LA BAJADA HILL, NEAR SANTA FE, NEW MEXICO. \ "La Bajada" is Spanish for "The Desert" or "The \ Drop" and descent or drop it certainly is, for it is a drop of \ about 800 feet from the rim of the mesa to the foot of the hill, \ which makes a drop of about 1,000 feet to the lowland. The \ road, one and a half miles long, is one of the marvels of road \ building in America, for it is cut out of volcanic lava in the \ face of an almost sheet precipice. It has 23 hair-pin turns, \ some of them having a very steep grade. In spite of all this, \ the road is perfectly safe, as all the turns are widened to \ accomodate the largest automobiles, and those that might \ prove dangerous have stone retaining walls on the outside to \ prevent cars going off the road and down the cliff. The trip \ up or down La Bajada is always remembered by those going \ to or from the Pacific Coast over the Ocean-to-Ocean Highway

u.c. printed: A-51348

c. printed transverse: C.T. AMERICAN ART

Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas

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