In 1933, the Park Service opened the Going-to-the-Sun Road, providing a scenic route through Glacier National Park. This booklet advertises this as the “new Logan Pass detour,” allowing people to get off at East Glacier or Belton, take a bus … Continue reading
“There is one trip that not only transports you far from everyday work, cares and surroundings . . . it takes you back more than two centuries to the early days of the American Colonies,” says this booklet. “You set … Continue reading
“Just let the Chesapeake & Ohio whisk you to Washington–and overnight you become a different person,” predicts this booklet. “You find yourself an ambassador without portfolio on an important mission of fun at the world’s most beautiful Capital.” At 40 … Continue reading
“We’re off to meet Virginia where Virginia meets the sea!” opens this booklet. “Your vacation starts the moment you glide away from the station platform for a smooth Chesapeake & Ohio trip. Ease back in your reclining, reserved seat and … Continue reading
“Hop aboard a smooth-cruising, air-conditioned C&O train and let it carry you back to Charlottesville in old Virginny,” opens this booklet. The booklet has numerous black-and-white photos — tinted, for some reason, in yellow — of the University of Virginia, … Continue reading
This booklet is fairly similar to one we’ve seen from 1958. The text is nearly identical, but many of the photos and a few of the illustrations are different. Click image to download a 38.8-MB PDF of this 36-page booklet. … Continue reading
This elegant 36-page booklet is illustrated mainly by 31 woodcuts by three different artists: Frank Carmichael, Alfred Joseph Casson, and J.E.H. McDonald. But it also has five watercolors by A.Y. Jackson. The booklet is introduced with four pages of text … Continue reading
Here’s a 1949 update of the Gracious Living booklet presented here a couple of days ago. This one uses a blue velvet cloth on the cover to give a feeling of elegance. Click image to download a 6.1-MB PDF of … Continue reading
From Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, to Victoria, British Columbia, this booklet describes the many hotels owned by Canadian Pacific in the late 1940s. I count eighteen of them, not including four lodges and three tea houses in the Rockies that were … Continue reading
Although the 1937 booklet presented here yesterday frequently used the word “gracious,” this postwar booklet is the first CP advertising I’ve found to use the phrase “gracious living.” Although this term has been around for a few centuries, in the … Continue reading
