The first card today is postmarked April 6, 1916. The fact that it doesn’t have the “See America First” slogan in large letters or a little rhyme on the back suggests that the cards with that slogan were only used in 1913-1915. This card does, however, say “‘See America First’ Series” in small print. The card is postmarked Astoria and was mailed to someone in Portland, so the writer’s description of taking a long walk and skating has nothing to do with Glacier Park.
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The next card says it is “‘See America First’ series B No. 41” but it has been preprinted to allow people to write a GN agent asking for passenger travel rates. The front of the card shows the Many Glacier area before a hotel was built there. Since that hotel opened in 1915, this card, like the ones from yesterday, could be from 1914. Unlike the previous card, this one has a rhyme on the back that we’ve seen before: “Where Glaciers of the long ago–Lay gleaming ‘neath the eternal snow.”
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Here we have “‘See America First’ series A No. 102.” The rhyme on the back is the same as the previous card. Chief Three Bears, who is shown on this card, was, at age 80, the eldest of ten Blackfeet Indians who accompanied Louis Hill to New York City in 1913 to help publicize the opening of the Glacier Park Hotel.
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Finally, we come to a strange card that dates to around 1941, when Great Northern was only the second railroad (after Santa Fe) to take delivery of General Motors’ new FT locomotives. The locomotive in this picture, 5701, was the second to be acquired after 5700. Both were renumbered to 251 and 250, respectively, in 1943.
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What makes this strange is that this was really a two-unit locomotive, as it was semipermanently coupled to a B unit that was also numbered 5701. Yet the only sign of 5701-B on the postcard is a black shadow behind 5701-A. It seems like whoever issued this postcard should have wanted to show both units.
There are other strange things about the card. What is that white stuff parallel to the bottom of the loco? It looks like steam from the locomotive’s cylinders, but of course this isn’t a steam locomotive. Maybe the artist just crudely whited-out something they didn’t want to show. Finally, the angle of the locomotive just looks impossible in the context of the landscape shown in the background.
The back of the card is no help as it has nothing but a few lines for the address section of the card — no description of the photo or indication of a publisher. I include it not because it was issued by the railroad, which it probably wasn’t, but to show something about the history of GN’s early Diesels.