While much of NP’s advertising and postcards focused on Yellowstone, the end of its rails was in the Pacific Northwest so naturally it issued many cards from that region. Click any image to download a PDF of that postcard. NP … Continue reading
Although Yellowstone Park is mostly in Wyoming, the Gardiner Entrance to the park, along with the Cook City and West Yellowstone entrances, were all in Montana. So visitors to Yellowstone taking the Northern Pacific would likely see some of these … Continue reading
Here are some more Yellowstone postcards. Two of these are marked with the NP logo while the rest were made from photographs made for or copyrighted by the NP. White Elephant Terrace is part of the Mammoth Hot Springs complex. … Continue reading
A tourist visiting Mammoth and the geyser basins would follow up with a trip to Yellowstone Canyon. These postcards show the canyon and waterfalls in Yellowstone. Click on any image to download a PDF of that card. To get to … Continue reading
Though there are more than 300 geysers in Yellowstone Park, most people never see the eruption of more than one or, if they are lucky, two or three. Click on any image to download a 300- to 500-KB PDF of … Continue reading
From the Gardiner entrance, Mammoth Hot Springs was the first stop in Yellowstone Park. Mammoth was surrounded by terraces of a kind of limestone known as travertine. This color card is from a painting by Gustav Krollman, who made many … Continue reading
The Northern Pacific was proud to call Gardiner the “original entrance to Yellowstone National Park” and, from 1903 until Union Pacific built to West Yellowstone in 1908, the only one reached by a railroad. These postcards show views in and … Continue reading
I’ll be posting Northern Pacific postcards for the next several days. Today, I have three advertising the heavyweight North Coast Limited and two more that don’t fit into other categories. Except where noted, PDFs are about 400 to 500 kilobytes. … Continue reading
One hundred years ago, someone could go from Chicago to Yellowstone, take a six-day, all-expense-paid tour of the park, and return for just $112.50. That included transportation, meals, and hotel accommodations at the park, and a lower berth but not … Continue reading
This edition is greatly expanded from yesterday’s 1913 version, with 50 percent more interior pages and what appears to be completely different text. From archive.org, we can see that a 1915 edition is substantially the same as this one. The … Continue reading
