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Guest Curators		 Pete's Postcards — Postcards

The People's Highway: Route 66, 1930s–1940s		 The People's Highway: Route 66, 1930s–1940s — Pete Koltnow: “Bumpy seats and the open road”

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Postcard sent from Tucumcari, New Mexico, by Pete Koltnow, June 30, 1950
Currently on display
 Not a part of the official Smithsonian Collection

A civil engineering student at Antioch College in Ohio, Pete Koltnow spent several weeks hitchhiking and riding buses on Route 66 trip before starting a summer job in Arizona in 1950. He sent this postcard to Dot Witter, his classmate and future wife.
Physical Description
postcard.
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Locations:
New Mexico

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