Here’s another dinner menu in Great Northern’s Glacier Park series, this one from 1946 showing Lake Josephine, in the Many Glacier region. The menu itself is similar to, but actually slightly higher-priced than, the 1947 Empire Builder menu presented here … Continue reading
This bookmark is undated, but the blue-and-red color scheme looks contemporaneous with the 1940 Glacier Park brochure I posted a few days ago. The back of the bookmark lists several “splendid books on the historic Northwest,” and the newest was … Continue reading
This incomplete document seems to be a mock-up for a brochure advertising Glacier Park hotels. The person I acquired it from thought it was from about 1916, which is possible as the three hotels mentioned were all built by that … Continue reading
The war was over and the streamlined Empire Builder was still a year away, but Great Northern was advertising its trains to Glacier National Park with this orange-and-blue brochure. While the orange foreshadows GN streamlined trains, it results in rather … Continue reading
This brochure advertises both Glacier National Park and the Golden Gate Exposition, which was held in both 1939 and 1940. The Great Northern Railway went by Glacier, of course, but no closer to San Francisco than Portland. But railroads never … Continue reading
The portraits in the 1940 portfolio, which are mostly static images of Indians sitting for the artist. In contrast, several of the portraits in the 1958 portfolio actually show Indians doing something: making pemmican; beating drums; talking sign language; and … Continue reading
For the 1958 portfolio of 24 Winold Reiss portraits, the Great Northern replaced Frank Linderman’s article about the Blackfeet Indians with one by Claude Schaeffer, who (unlike Linderman) was an actual anthropologist. Schaeffer apparently alerted the railway to the fact … Continue reading
In 1958, the Great Northern published a second edition of its portfolio of Winold Reiss portraits. All 24 portraits were different from the ones in the 1940/1947 edition, and only 11 were from the 1935 book on Blackfeet Indians. This … Continue reading
The 24 prints in the Winold Reiss portfolio measure 9″x12″, though the images on the prints are just 7.25″x9.7″. Each print also has a very brief description of the painting, which are shorter versions of the descriptions that appeared in … Continue reading
Frank Lindeman’s article on the Blackfeet Indians takes nine of the twelve pages of this little booklet, which was included in the envelope with the portfolio of 24 Winold Reiss paintings. Although this particular copy has a 1947 copyright, it … Continue reading
