Alaska for an Air-Cooled Vacation

In 1936, the Alaska Steamship Company published this brochure in cooperation with the Union Pacific. In a few months, I’ll post a similar brochure published in cooperation with the Great Northern.

Click image to download an 4.3-MB PDF of this brochure.

Naturally, most of the information in this brochure is about Alaska, with just three of the twelve panels describing Union Pacific trains and fares. Of the portions about Alaska, most deal with the Inside Passage that was and is used by ships to access the Alaska panhandle. Other than a photo of Mt. McKinley, the rest of Alaska might not exist.


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