Columbia Gardens Butte Montana Postcard Dance Pavilion Anaconda Copper Mining
Columbia Gardens was Butte's beloved 'mountain playground,' carved from barren land at a cost of a million dollars by Copper King W. A. Clark and later owned and operated by the Anaconda Copper Mining Company. This bright chrome-era postcard showcases the ornate white Dance Pavilion set amid immaculate lawns, flower beds in full bloom, and towering trees, with a bare Montana mountain rising dramatically behind. The gardens were demolished around 1973 to expand the Berkeley Pit copper mine, making images like this the only way to see the site as it stood.
- Published and photographed by Lauretta Studio, Butte, Montana (Mr. A. Walkup); stock no. ICS-46662
- Chrome-era color postcard, vivid and colorful
- Captioned text on reverse notes creation by Copper King W. A. Clark; later owned by Anaconda Copper Mining Company
- Unused and unposted; only marking is a light penciled price notation on the reverse
- Gardens razed ca. 1973 for Berkeley Pit mine expansion — a sought-after piece of Butte history
Condition
Unused and unposted; clean and bright with a light penciled price notation on the reverse and only minor toning to the back. Corners are square and the image is vivid.
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