Today’s booklet was advertised in yesterday’s timetable as an “example of the principles of fine book-making applied to travel literature.” While it only superficially resembles a fine book, it is certainly a lavish travel booklet. At 9″x12″, it is much … Continue reading
We’ve previously seen a 1951 booklet with this same title. That one had a page or three each on Yellowstone, Oregon, Washington, Alaska, and other Northwest destinations. Click image to download a 17.9-MB PDF of this 40-page booklet. This one … Continue reading
This is one of those booklets whose main cover (as shown below) is actually the back cover. This format was often used in booklets published by the Canadian National, Rock Island, and several other railroads but not, as I recall, … Continue reading
We’ve seen a booklet with the same cover as this one from 1950. This one is dated 1955. For the first 33 pages, there are almost no differences between the two. Even the graphic of a steam-powered passenger train on … Continue reading
We’ve seen booklets with this cover before from 1948 and 1962. This one is from the middle of that range, 1955. The text and graphics in all three are similar, but many of the photos were changed over the years. … Continue reading
Unlike yesterday’s booklet, which was mostly text with some black-and-white photos, this one is mostly photos, and most of them are in color. Particularly noteworthy is the centerfold photo, which is in color but features the same skiers in the … Continue reading
Like Union Pacific’s 1947 Dude Ranch booklet, which briefly describes more than 100 dude ranches, this one consists mainly of brief descriptions of 55 different ski areas and various associated facilities reachable by Union Pacific. Most ski areas get four … Continue reading
“This statement,” says this booklet underneath the above headline, “made by a prominent American, happily expresses the popularity of the Centennial State with tourist and traveler.” It is somewhat mind-boggling how much railroad advertising aimed at getting people to visit … Continue reading
Yesterday’s 1911 Summer Tours booklet included six hand-colored lithographic photos. This one has eight, enough to have a photo on almost every other spread. One of the photos, of Yosemite Park’s El Capitan, was also in the 1911 booklet; the … Continue reading
Here is the 1930 edition of the booklets from 1913 and 1925 that we saw a few days ago. This one has a much more attractive front cover than the 1925 edition, but the interior pages are not as nicely … Continue reading
