american vintage travel posters part 2 + 1 for borneo

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there is actually much more to the "lost idol of sarawak" than is illustrated in the poster, as you can see from the pictures. it is a sort of tree coffin and wasn't ever lost, i think.

i went looking for this all over borneo and didn't see it throughout the entire breadth of the island. i thought it didn't exist and was about to go to peninsular malaysia but then located it.

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since i cannot find the exact place in the postcard, i just posted a picture representative of bryce


this is the volcano now

placard at the volcano site .

american vintage travel posters.

The spectacular lake of lava in Volcano National Park hasn't existed for more than a 100 years so I had to settle for a modern day shot. Mark Twain supposedly saw it like this.

aerial shot

i believe the maximum height you can achieve with adobe structures is 4 storeys and the Square Tower (pictured) cliff dwelling in Mesa Verde demonstrates this. It cannot be approached from the angle in the postcard, so i had to settle for an aerial shot. the cliff dwellings (there are many in the area) were an evolution of the Greathouse architecture from the american indians. it actually kind of seems like a "step down" to me but i'm sure they had their reasons. of course, it could also be why the anasazi disappeared right after. this is around 1200 AD already.

For my Bryce & Grand Canyon pictures, the park rangers couldn't place the area and just told me that they were artistic renditions, which i don't necessarily believe. i am of the opinion they are actual photos reduced to 3 or 4 colors (it can be done by macromedia fireworks (and probably corelphoto-paint & adobe photoshop as well)

Producing color photograph posters would've been cost-prohibitive in that era so it would've been more economically feasible to make these reduced color ones which look like paintings, but aren't. furthermore, you could see i was able to find the others which were more or less accurate. the hawaii poster does demonstrate artistic renditions are possible, but given the relative permanent nature of the stone sites of Bryce & the Grand Canyon, i am inclined to think otherwise