1951 Rocky Mountain National Park Automobile Permit RMNP-804257
Brief Description
This 1951 automobile permit from Rocky Mountain National Park includes a handwritten list of the firearms that were being carried inside the vehicle.
Compare the shape of the number ‘2’ throughout the handwriting on the ticket, and you can see this was all written by the park ranger at the gate.
Info
- Date: August 6, 1951
- Size: 4" x 4 13/16"
- ID: RMNP-804257
- Acquisition Date: February 2025
- Repository: Coloradotopia Archives
Main images were scanned. The lower photo with the brown background was captured in a light box.
Image use restricted.
Historical Dating Comments
Two date stamps on the front of the ticket.
The Firearms List
Handwriting from the ranger indicates the firearms that were being carried inside the vehicle. The list is transcribed below just as it is written on the ticket.
- 30-06 Springfield
- 12 Gauge Shotgun
- .22 Rifle
Comments & Discussion
Similar tickets were used in previous years, but not all of them got the giant stamp with the last two digits of the year on the lower half.
This ticket came from the Thompson River entrance to the park—an entrance that is no longer here. A new Beaver Meadows entrance opened Dec. 16, 1959.1 The Thompson River entrance closed in 1960.2
Condition, Aging & Authenticity: The brown square and rectangle marks are from adhesive tape. One of these areas still has the tape stuck to the surface on the backside. The ticket was likely fixed into an album at one point. There is a horizontal center crease in the area of the black horizontal separator line. The ranger stamps are showing lots of fading.
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