FOOD CACHE IN ALASKA

Food storage is important if you want to eat after the growing season ends. Most people in the developed world have freezers and refrigerators. Their food is kept for them in warehouses until they do their weekly shopping. In less developed areas, like bush Alaska, people must store their own food and so they rely on a food cache.
These are often built on stilts and some sport sod roofs which help keep them cool in the shoulder months before and after winter. The stilts make these structures more difficult for bears to get at the doors. For the most part the cache is used to store caribou or moose meat over the long winter months.
This post card image of a cache near a body of water is not specifically identified. The photo was taken by Mel Anderson for Alaska Imp Prints, which does not have a web presence. It was distributed by J&H Sales of Anchorage. My best guess is this card was produced in the 1970-80s.

Mt. Rushmore: before and after

A fitting card from the past to commerate the U.S. Presidential Inauguration.

This two panel, black and white photo post card is post dated July 22, 1947. It is addressed to my grandmother from my mother, who was touring the west. She said the monument was "inspiring." Note the typed script on the top panel. Unusual for the time, the back of the card is undivided and does not include a description. The "812" number on the bottom panel is a mystery.

The Mount Rushmore National Memorial was begun in 1927 and completed in 1941. The sculptor, Gutzon Borglum created a lasting tribute in colossal form of four U.S. presidents, Washington, Jefferson, Roosevelt and Lincoln. The monument is not simply a tribute to four past presidents but to the high ideals each represented.