Here is an impressively large–11″x14″–booklet heralding the new North Coast Limited in May, 1930. Great Northern had introduced its new Empire Builder the year before, and NP was trying to keep up. The booklet was obviously designed to impress. Not … Continue reading
The title of this 36-page booklet reminds us of the name of the railroad at the same time as it identifies the geographic focus of the booklet: the north Pacific coastal states, which is to say Washington and Oregon. The … Continue reading
The Spokane Public Library says that this version of The Storied Northwest is from 1929. Although just 20 pages, instead of the 28 in previous editions, the pages are roughly twice as large as the earlier versions, allowing for much … Continue reading
Unlike the previous two versions of this booklet shown here, this one is not dated. However, the Spokane Public Library says that it was from 1927. Unlike the previous two editions, this one has many line drawings (highlighted in red) … Continue reading
Like yesterday’s 1922 booklet, this 1923 edition is from the Spokane Public Library. Inside, some of the photographs are new and the text has been slightly updated. Click image to download a 6.4-MB PDF of this 28-page booklet. Outside the … Continue reading
This appears to be a condensed version of the booklet titled, Eastward Through the Storied Northwest, which NP published from about 1903 through at least the mid-1910s. While that older booklet attempted to entice Californians to make their journeys to … Continue reading
When I first saw the title of this 1915 booklet in the Spokane Public Library, I assumed it was one of those advertisements for settlers to buy farmland along the Northern Pacific. But, as the subtitle–“Over the Scenic Highway”–suggests, this … Continue reading
These blotters, the first three of which are from the Dale Hastin collection, are undated but by their context I presume they are from the post-war period. The first one says that the Great Big Baked Potato “is now restored … Continue reading
These blotters from the Dale Hastin collection are undated, but most of them advertise the North Coast Limited as being air conditioned, which would put them in the late 1930s. The first blotter, in the shape of a “Great Big … Continue reading
These blotters from the Dale Hastin collection reveal how colorful and fantastic the 1933 Chicago Century of Progress Exposition must have been. Instead of relying on classical architectural styles, as the 1893 Columbian Exposition had done, the planners of the … Continue reading
