These oversized postcards are obviously from a completely different era than the ones presented in the last few days. I have more older postcards from the Minnesota History Center that I’ll get to soon, but these are from my own … Continue reading
Category Archives: Northern Pacific
We’ve already seen a colorful 1963 menu celebrating the 80th anniversary of the completion of Northern Pacific’s line from Lake Superior to Puget Sound. The very next year, NP issued this menu celebrating the centennial of the legislation that provided … Continue reading
The North Coast Limited still had its observation car when this guide was issued, although it is only mentioned in the guide as a place where beverages were served. This is far different from the heavyweight observation car described in … Continue reading
“Passengers in standard Pullmans are cordially invited to avail themselves of the special services and comforts on the air-conditioned North Coast Limited,” says the inside front cover of this guide. All of special services described in the guide were to … Continue reading
This is another poor photo of Yellowstone that a colorist has hardly improved. The subject is so contrasty that it might as well be a silhouette. The use of a green tint in the middle ground is probably meant to … Continue reading
This slightly colorized photo is looking downstream rather than up to the falls. Like the photo on the Yellowstone Falls card, this photo was taken in late afternoon when half the canyon was in shadow. Yet the photo is credited … Continue reading
Lower Yellowstone Falls is a spectacular sight, but the photograph on this menu doesn’t do it justice partly because it is black-and-white but also because it was taken in the late afternoon when half the canyon was in the shade. … Continue reading
In the 1920s, Northern Pacific menus consisted of a card with a black-and-white (sometimes colorized) photo, usually taken by Asahel Curtis, on one side and the menu on the other side. We’ve already seen one with with a colorized version … Continue reading
Northern Pacific issued this cute little (5″x5″) menu in 1915. This is actually a 12-page booklet (including covers), two pages of which are a breakfast menu and two a wine and beverage listing. The remaining pages are photographs of typical … Continue reading
The Ranch-o-Grams were a series of humorous postcards issued by Northern Pacific to promote dude ranches. Eight of them are shown in Railroad Postcards of Yellowstone of which I found five in the Minnesota History Center Northern Pacific archive. Click … Continue reading