The Pacific Northwest & Alaska: 1945

Although the title of this booklet includes “and Alaska,” the booklet actually gives more space to Idaho (which is part of the Northwest but not the Pacific Northwest) and Sun Valley than to Alaska. But this should be expected considering that Sun Valley was owned by the Union Pacific.

Click image to download a 27.6-MB PDF of this 36-page booklet.

The cover shown above is the back cover; the front cover has a picture of Mt. St. Helens but is clearly not meant to be the display cover. The booklet is dated December, 1945, which suggests Union Pacific rushed it into print with the end of the war. Except for the cover photos shown above, all of the photos in the booklet are in black-and-white; within a year or two, Union Pacific would rely much more heavily on color photos for its advertising booklets.


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