Land of the Midnight Sun in 1932

Canadian National titled its 1932 booklet advertising trips to Alaska and the Yukon “The Land of the Midnight Sun.” This shouldn’t be confused with postcard-sized welcome-aboard booklets for its Alaska steamships that were titled just “Midnight Sun.” This booklet is much larger and features 48 black-and-white photos and two paintings by Charles W. Simpson, whose work we’ve seen before on at least two pieces of Canadian Pacific literature.

Click image to download a 8.4-MB PDF of this 28-page booklet.

Instead of having a fold-out map in the back, this booklet includes a map of the route from Seattle to Dawson City on the inside front and back covers. I Photoshopped them together, but in 1932 someone wanting to see the whole map would have to rip out the interior pages.

Click image to download a 708-KB PDF of this map.


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