This pictorial relies more on text than the ones of the last few days. It has three full-page photos and a fourth page with two photos. Three more pages have small photos but are mostly text and the last page … Continue reading
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This pictorial notes that Northern Pacific trains follow 44 rivers between Chicago and the Pacific Northwest. The pictorial shows five full-page and four half-page photos of some of these rivers. Click image to download a 7.8-MB PDF of this brochure. … Continue reading
Here is another brochure in the same series as yesterday’s, with four 8-1/2″x11″ panels that unfold into a brochure of about 33″x11″. Also like yesterday’s, this one is undated, but it uses the phrase “completely air-conditioned,” which puts it to … Continue reading
In the late 1930s, Northern Pacific issued a series of brochures that folded up to be 8-1/2″x11″ or a bit smaller. The brochures featured many black-and-white photos with the NP logo and a few headlines highlighted in red. This is … Continue reading
Though “Pacific Northwest” usually refers to just Oregon and Washington, the brochure, which unfolds into the equivalent of six pages of a standard 8″x9″ booklet, gives equal time to Montana and Idaho. It has no date, but the mention of … Continue reading
For some reason, Great Northern used two different shapes for its tiny brochures. While yesterday’s brochure, for example, was 5-1/2″ by 17″, this one is 8-1/2″ by 11″. Either way provides 12 panels and the same number of square inches … Continue reading
This brochure was apparently printed the same date (June, 1959) and in the same quantity (50,000 copies) as yesterday’s. It is also the same size: 12 printed panels. Click image to download a 1.8-MB PDF of this brochure. It includes … Continue reading
The headline reads “Grand Coulee Dam,” but only four of twelve panels (plus the cover photo) are about the dam and the related irrigation project. Two more cover Lake Chelan, three deal with the Wenatchee Valley, and one briefly describes … Continue reading
The tourist who collected the menus and other dining items shown in the last few days may have arrived at East Glacier by train and certainly stayed at Glacier’s finest hotels. But if they had arrived by car and wanted … Continue reading
Here’s a companion to yesterday’s brochure covering the route between the Pacific Northwest and the San Francisco Bay Area. It actually starts in Vancouver, BC, meaning trains of the Great Northern to Seattle and Great Northern, Northern Pacific, or Union … Continue reading