This booklet lists two dozen conventions and festivals that were scheduled to take place in Portland, Seattle, Spokane, and Tacoma (plus two in Los Angeles) in 1909, from the Alaska-Yukon Pacific Exposition to the Western Bowling Congress. To encourage convention-goers … Continue reading
This brochure, which is from the NPRHA — Lorenz Schrenk collection, is similar in basic format to yesterday’s. However, the map on the back is completely different, being an oblique aerial view of the region showing geographic relief. While 11 … Continue reading
This brochure advertises trips to Yellowstone National Park under what today would be considered primitive conditions. Roads were dirt, vehicles were bumpy stagecoaches, and while the brochure says that the park’s four hotels “compare favorably with those of metropolitan cities,” … Continue reading
Many people have heard of the Beartooth Highway, advertised by the Northern Pacific as the Red Lodge High Road, which connects Red Lodge with Cooke City and the northeast entrance to Yellowstone. Roving reporter Charles Kuralt called it “the most … Continue reading
“When life closes in about you and you feel the need of an unusual vacation, head for the Open Range!” suggests the back of this menu. “The American West and a Rocky Mountain Dude Ranch are names to conjure with … Continue reading
As with yesterday’s photo, geologic forces have reshaped Washington’s coast since Asahel Curtis took the photo on this menu card, probably a little more than a century ago. The photo shows Cape Elizabeth, on the Quinault Indian Reservation, as seen … Continue reading
Here’s Mount Saint Helens from Spirit Lake as viewed by Asahel Curtis a century or so ago. Unusual for these photo menus, the back of the card (which I photographed at the Minnesota History Center) is stamped, “In reproducing this … Continue reading
This is one of those booklets whose main cover (as shown below) is actually the back cover. This format was often used in booklets published by the Canadian National, Rock Island, and several other railroads but not, as I recall, … Continue reading
We’ve previously seen Northern Pacific’s 8-1/2″x11″ brochures for the North Dakota badlands, Yellowstone, dude ranches, the Mount Baker National Forest, Portland, Seattle, Tacoma, rivers, the Rockies, and mountains in general. This one covers the East, as in the eastern United … Continue reading
As I’ve noted before, when Northern Pacific introduced the streamlined North Coast Limited in 1948, it left it on the same timetable as the previous heavyweight train. That kept it at a severe disadvantage compared with the Empire Builder and … Continue reading
