We’ve previously seen a 1947 ranch vacations booklet. This one has similar text and some of the same photos, but most of the photos are new. Like the 1947 version, but unlike dude ranch booklets from other railroads, this one … Continue reading
I’ve shown this ad before in a post on Bern Hill’s artwork for General Motors. Since then I’ve acquired these sample advertisements distributed by the Kudner Agency of New York. Click image to download a 836-KB PDF of this ad. … Continue reading
Issued just a few months after the introduction of the semi-streamlined North Coast Limited, this timetable contains several pages of advertising for that train. This includes a description and photo of the observation car on the back cover plus two … Continue reading
This menu is dated June, 1948, so it was used on the semi-streamlined North Coast Limited, though the menu makes no mention of streamlining or includes advertising of any kind. The back of the elegant orange folder is completely blank. … Continue reading
In stressing that the North Coast Limited was completely air conditioned — including a diagram purporting to show how air conditioning worked — this booklet can be dated to about 1937, the first year, as far as I can tell, … Continue reading
In contrast to yesterday’s postcard ads from the early 1910s, these cards from the Minnesota Historical Center appear to be from the 1930s. The first advertises a North Coast Limited that comes with a “club car with library, writing desk, … Continue reading
These four cards were all probably issued in the teens. Although roughly the size of postcards, they are more clearly advertisements than postcards. They provide room for an address on the back but the rest of the space is used … Continue reading
According to Railroad Postcards of Yellowstone, Northern Pacific issued at least 18 postcards with a black (as opposed to red-and-black) logo on the back, starting in about 1913. The back did not have a photo-related caption but just said, “Northern … Continue reading
These two cards were printed for Northern Pacific by Colourpicture Publishers of Boston, which was associated with the Tichnor Brothers. The company trademarked the term “plastichrome” in November, 1965, so the cards may date from 1966 through 1970 — though … Continue reading
These two postcards were printed for Northern Pacific by the H.S. Crocker Company , then of Chicago. Crocker dates back to 1856, when it started a print shop in Sacramento. The company still exists but now makes and prints lids … Continue reading
