“Keep the Key to Your City”

“‘Keep the Key to Your City,’ cried the celebrated man” shown in the comic on the wrap-around cover of this booklet, “‘I’m far too comfortable on the North Coast Limited.'” Like the cover of yesterday’s brochure, this one is by Seaverns Hilton, who by the time this booklet came out was living full time in Weld, Maine.

Click image to download an 2.9-MB PDF of this 16-page booklet from the Minnesota History Center.

This booklet is undated, but it advertises that tourist sleepers were air conditioned, which didn’t happen until 1935. The prices it gives for sleeping car fares match those shown in 1935 timetables but not ones from later years. Since this is based on photographs rather than scans, the quality of this PDF isn’t as good as most of the ones presented here, but I’m pleased I could pair it with the Seaverns Hilton-illustrated brochure shown here yesterday.


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