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It looks like someone did a lot of careful hand stitching to make the cover of this menu framing a postcard and the Great Northern logo with another postcard on the back. The stitching appears too imperfect to be a … Continue reading
Category Archives: Great Northern
Here are five more postcards from around 1913 contributed by a Streamliner Memories reader. These aren’t quite as offensive as yesterday’s. The first one even makes the chief appear able to read English, which wasn’t true for most Indian elders … Continue reading
A Streamliner Memories reader sent scans of these postcards. Most are undated but the first one is postmarked October 23, 1913 in Malta, Montana. A message to the recipient in Chicago says it was written “on board the Oriental Limited.” … Continue reading
Perhaps trying to avoid the debacle of the 1968 calendar, Great Northern put a painting on its 1969 edition. For 1970, it went back to a photograph, but company executives admonished the local official who arranged the photo shoot, Tom … Continue reading
Great Northern issued calendars with two different photos in 1968, but it wasn’t planned that way. After this calendar was printed up and distributed, someone in Great Northern’s headquarters noticed that it looked like one of the boys in the … Continue reading
Great Northern introduced Big Sky Blue in 1967, but when the calendar was made it was still proudly painting its locomotives Omaha orange and Pullman green. The photo on this calendar shows several of the railway’s new SD45 locomotives. GN … Continue reading
In the 1950s, Great Northern added route maps to the bottoms of its shippers’ calendars, keeping the Rocky logo at the top. Having discontinued the Indian calendars after 1958, GN sent the simpler calendars to both shippers and passenger agents, … Continue reading
This appears to be Great Northern’s last calendar that featured a Winold Reiss painting. Unfortunately, the information under the pad tells us little about Spider, the subject of the painting, other than he was the son of Acting Bear; that … Continue reading
The painting on this calendar is titled Buckskin Pinto Woman. The text under the pad says she also went by the “modern” name of Cora Arkinson and that her father, Bull Child, helped entertain tourists in Glacier Park. I can’t … Continue reading
During a raid on a Crow party whose main goal was to steal horses, one Blackfeet brave focused instead on stealing as many guns has he could. From then on, he was known as Many Guns, which became his family … Continue reading