This book features the Shasta Route between Portland and the Bay Area. The stunning cover painting by Maurice Logan shows bald eagles flying over the forests in front of Mount Shasta. Like yesterday’s book, this one has no title page … Continue reading
In the late 1920s, Southern Pacific issued a series of photo books that were nearly 9″x12″ in size. The book covers featured glorious paintings by Maurice Logan, which in many cases wrapped around to the back cover. Inside were crisp … Continue reading
In the early 20th century, a writer named Elbert Hubbard wrote a series of volumes titled Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, one of whom was James J. Hill. It may be in reference to these books that … Continue reading
We previously seen a 1918 postcard folder showing scenes along Southern Pacific’s Portland-Oakland route, also known as the Shasta Route. That fold described that route as “The Road of a Thousand Wonders.” Click image to download a 30.0-MB PDF of … Continue reading
Today’s booklet is the same size as yesterday’s, but has a different title and a different cover photo. Inside, however, the two booklets are nearly identical. The text is almost identical and four of the eight photos and the back … Continue reading
In 1914, the White Pass and Yukon, which had been running steamboats on the upper Yukon River (White Horse to Dawson), bought the Northern Navigation Company, which operated steamboats from Dawson to Tanana (near Fairbanks). This gave it a monopoly … Continue reading
This booklet, like many before it, is titled Alaska, Atlin and the Yukon.” However, a notice on page 7 reports that the White Pass Route had to discontinue Atlin service due to “heavy losses.” “The decision to discontinue tourist service … Continue reading
This beautiful booklet has heavy-duty covers that are 4.4-inches wide holding 10 pages that are 4-inches wide. But the next 10 pages unfold to be slightly more than 8-inches wide, thus allowing for panoramic photos that wouldn’t fit on a … Continue reading
This booklet is from the era when Canadian Pacific’s graphics artists hadn’t figured out how to use the four-color process to print more than four colors for things other than photographs. As a result, all of the print and many … Continue reading
This booklet closely resembles one that we’ve seen from 1932, but there are a few significant differences. The two cover paintings are obviously different, though they resemble one another because both were by the same artist, Charles W. Simpson. Click … Continue reading
