We’ve seen this booklet before, only in reverse. Scenic Route West started in Chicago and ended up in California; today’s booklet starts in the Pacific Northwest and ends up on the East Coast. Note the difference in color on the … Continue reading
The typical travel booklet presented here has typeset print, fancy photos, and center binding. In contrast, this is five typewriter-written pages stapled in the upper lefthand corner to a cover page with a pasted-on photograph. To save time, I didn’t … Continue reading
This undated booklet mentions that the Inside Passage route through Klamath Falls to San Francisco/Oakland “is expected to be ready for passenger service early in 1933.” So I suspect it is from 1931 or 1932. Passenger service on that route … Continue reading
Though Brits still say aeroplane, the word airplane replaced aeroplane as the standard term in the United States in 1916. So GN’s use of the older term must have been merely for nostalgic effect, or perhaps to cast a posh, … Continue reading
Though this booklet has nearly the same title as yesterday’s, it is completely different from front to back. Perhaps to help promote Great Northern’s 1935 book of Winold Reiss’ paintings, this booklet features a painting of a Blackfeet Indian boy … Continue reading
This booklet is undated, but it refers to the completion of Going-to-the-Sun Road “this summer.” The Park Service says that it “celebrated the completion of the Going-to-the Sun Road on July 15, 1933,” so the booklet must date from 1932 … Continue reading
Rocky replaced Old Bill in 1936, so all of these blotters from the Dale Hastin collection are from that year or later. The first two are simple, with the only difference between them being the color. Unusually for blotters, the … Continue reading
In 1929, GN completed its 7.9-mile Cascade Tunnel, as commemorated in the blotter below. This blotter is from the GN archives at the Minnesota History Center, so I can definitely date it to 1929. Click image to download a 356-KB … Continue reading
The first two blotters today are from the 1928 files in the GN archives at the Minnesota History Center. Click image to download a 225-KB PDF of this blotter. Chief Two Guns White Calf somewhat resembled the face on the … Continue reading
As a big shipper of apples from the Wenatchee Valley, GN loved to promote National Apple Week with special menus, recipe cards, and in this case a blotter. This and the other blotters shown today are from the Minnesota History … Continue reading
