Published by the Passenger Department, Southern Pacific Company, this little booklet has four pages of text followed by two dozen full-page photos plus a centerfold photo of Yosemite Valley. Though nominally black-and-white, most of the photos are printed in a brown or green tone that presents the subjects very well.
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owned by Southern Pacific and after SP sold it in 1914. He also painted a number of posters for Southern Pacific. He died in 1940.
The cover art is signed W.H. Bull. William Howell Bull was born in 1861 in New York, and made several trips to California to paint landscapes. He finally moved to California in 1894, first to San Francisco and then settling in San Mateo, where Southern Pacific’s Sunset magazine was published. He painted numerous covers for the magazine, both when it was
Unfortunately, I don’t see any photo credits in the booklet. It was a little before Ansel Adams’ time (he was born in 1902), but the photos are of a similar caliber.