This 1950 booklet, with an associated sheet of stamps showing pictures of each of the presidents through Truman, would have been given to children riding a train. The children would then carefully separate the stamps and glue them in the … Continue reading
Category Archives: Union Pacific
The cover of this brochure resembles this … Continue reading
This folder opens up to show 18 hand-colored photos of scenes along the Union Pacific. Half of the photos are of Union Pacific train stations, which were not necessarily the most scenic sites along the route. Click image to download … Continue reading
This little booklet has the same cover as yesterday’s much larger 1939 tour guide, but this one is actually for the 1940 season. A mail-in postcard on the inside back cover invites people to request the full booklet and shows … Continue reading
I count 27 beautiful color photos in this booklet. While the cover illustration is intriguing, it is entirely a fantasy: no railroad comes anywhere close to getting a view of Mt. Moran in the Grand Tetons. Old Faithful was popular … Continue reading
Union Pacific inaugurated the City of Los Angeles, City of Portland, and City of San Francisco in 1935, with the City of Denver coming in June, 1936. This booklet isn’t dated, but at one point it refers to the train … Continue reading
In 1936, the Alaska Steamship Company published this brochure in cooperation with the Union Pacific. In a few months, I’ll post a similar brochure published in cooperation with the Great Northern. Click image to download an 4.3-MB PDF of this … Continue reading
Whereas the 1932 edition of the summer tours booklet had a natural color photo of the Great White Throne on its cover, the 1933 cover is undecorated by any photos or illustrations. Inside, many of the tours are the same, … Continue reading
Nominally, this 24-half-page booklet is a companion to the 52-page tour booklet published the same year. Strangely, however, there aren’t many design cues that would suggest they go together. The background color on the covers appears to be a different … Continue reading
The map in the center of this booklet is dated February, 1922, and no other date mentioned is later than 1920, so this booklet was probably published in 1922 or 1923. Like the 1916 Yellowstone booklet, the cover shown below … Continue reading