Views of the Shasta Route

Some time after 1948 — I’m guessing around 1950 — a company called Alex Dulfer Lithographing issued a new set of 16 color photos of the Shasta Route. Like the National Color Press set, these would have been sold in train stations and on board Southern Pacific trains. Unlike the National Color Press set, the colors in these photos appear much more realistic.

Click image to download a 16.5-MB PDF of this photo set.

Also unlike my version of the National Color Press edition, this one includes an actual photo of a train, which of course is the Shasta Daylight by Odell Lake, perhaps Southern Pacific’s favorite spot to photograph the train. Since the train began service in 1949, it wouldn’t have been available to include in the 1948 photo set.

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Photos of Mount Shasta, Shasta Dam, and the Pitt River Bridge were all taken in almost exactly the same spot as photos used in the 1948 edition, but probably in different years. Photos of the Golden Gate Bridge, Mount Lassen, Castle Crags, Crater Lake, and Portland also recall those from the 1948 set, though they were taken from different angles or locations. Curiously, the photo of the Bay Bridge is exactly the same photo as was used on menus for the San Francisco Overland and City of San Francisco. One of these menus is dated 1947, indicating that it was available but not used for the 1948 photo sets.

This raises a few questions. Did Southern Pacific hire the photographers that took pictures of San Francisco scenes used on Union Pacific-style menus? Was Alex Dulfer (which was also a postcard company as well as a book printer) the source of the photos for the San Francisco menus? Did Alex Dulfer have anything to do with finding the photographers, or was its role solely in printing these photo sets? I’ve found no information about this company on line that could answer these questions.


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