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Here we have the same cover as the 1930 booklet sans yellow background color. It is also the same as 1932 except the grey stripes are brown in the latter year. Click image to download a 39.5-MB PDF of this … Continue reading
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We’ve seen this cover before, with slightly different colors, on the 1932 booklet, but it is very different from the 1929 version. The page count is the same as the 1929 edition, but the size of the booklet has grown … Continue reading
Burlington Escorted Tours published a 68-page booklet (including covers) for 1929, but only two of those pages dealt with Alaska. The booklet advised people interesting in going to that territory to “Ask for special Alaska booklet giving full details and … Continue reading
This little booklet summarized the five escorted tours that were described in detail in yesterday’s booklet. This booklet has an unusual design and the PDF is best viewed in two-page mode. The front cover is 6 inches wide by 5 … Continue reading
We’ve previously seen this cover on a 1929 edition of the Burlington Escorted Tours booklet. While this one is 48 pages and includes half-tone photos, the 1929 version was expanded to 68 pages and some of the photos were colorized. … Continue reading
“By all means, if you can spare the time, make your minimum” tour of Yellowstone last “twice five days, two weeks would be better, a month would be ideal,” urges this 1917 booklet. The booklet then goes on to describe … Continue reading
Although this pre-war booklet has a nice four-color photo on the cover, all of the interior photos are black-and-white. Despite the lack of color inside (other than some yellow trim), the booklet is a good balance between showing the sights … Continue reading
One hundred years ago, someone could go from Chicago to Yellowstone, take a six-day, all-expense-paid tour of the park, and return for just $112.50. That included transportation, meals, and hotel accommodations at the park, and a lower berth but not … Continue reading
This edition is greatly expanded from yesterday’s 1913 version, with 50 percent more interior pages and what appears to be completely different text. From archive.org, we can see that a 1915 edition is substantially the same as this one. The … Continue reading
Several editions of this booklet are available on archive.org. The earliest one there is dated 1906 and it is completely different from this 1913 edition. The 1907 edition, however, has much of the same text as this one, though they … Continue reading