Here’s a 1945 photo portfolio issued by National Color Press, which — like others from that publisher — means the photos are really black-and-white and colored by hand. The colors are ghastly, with too much purple and yellow on many … Continue reading
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In November, 1949, less than three years after introducing the streamlined Empire Builder, Great Northern announced that it was spending $9 million on 66 new cars that would make up a brand-new Empire Builder to be placed in service in … Continue reading
Here are four more stickers that I photographed at the Minnesota History Center. The first shows Two Guns White Calf, the Blackfeet Indian who Great Northern public relations people insisted, incorrectly, was the model for the Indian head nickel. This … Continue reading
At about 1-3/4″x2-1/4″, these are much smaller than luggage stickers, which were typically around 3″x6″. These stickers were probably applied to menus to call diners’ attention to selected items available from Great Northern kitchens. Click any image to download a … Continue reading
Next year will be the 150th anniversary of the Golden Spike at Promontory Point, which means these stamps, issued for the 75th anniversary, are themselves almost 75 years old. The Union Pacific logo is flanked by locomotive 119 on the … Continue reading
Here are three more note pad sheets advertising Union Pacific trains. I’m told that the note pad these came from contained all three of these plus the three shown yesterday in rotation. Again, the Overland logo dates these to before … Continue reading
Each of the sheets from this note pad advertise different Union Pacific trains. The three trains advertised on these sheets all continued to operate at least until 1954. However, the Union Pacific Overland logo indicates that these pads were printed … Continue reading
Here are two more menus used by American Legionnaires going home from the 1938 convention in Los Angeles. We’ve seen both of these covers before, but these come with a couple of extras. Click image to download a 2.3-MB PDF … Continue reading
Here are few items from the Milwaukee Road. One is from my collection, but most are just images I found on the web. Click image to download a 456-KB PDF of this envelope. First is this ticket envelope advertising the … Continue reading
Here we have the Alex Dulfer Kodachrome version of the packet of Coast and Valley photos. Many of these seem to be deliberate re-creations of the photos included in the National Color Press folio: photos of the Golden Gate Bridge, … Continue reading