For 1931, Union Pacific elected to replace a color photo with this painting of horseback riders enjoying travel through what appears to be the Colorado mountains. This choice is questionable as I’m not sure I would send a teenage daughter … Continue reading
In 1930, UP replaced the embossed cover summer tours booklet with this booklet featuring an attractive photo of the Grand Canyon. The cover pictures would continue to change each year during the 1930s. Click image to download an 48.5-MB PDF … Continue reading
Embossed cover booklets for California, Colorado, the Pacific Northwest, Yellowstone, Southern Utah parks, and summer escorted tours all also appear in later incarnations with maps or color photos on the covers. But this embossed cover booklet for Southern California is … Continue reading
Although the curiously named Chicago, Union Pacific and North Western Line tour company had been offering escorted tours since 1901, this is one of the earliest Summer Tour guides that I’ve seen. The beautiful front cover shows Old Faithful while … Continue reading
This appears to be in the same series as a 1921 booklet about California and a 1923 booklet about the Pacific Northwest. However, the PNW booklet is a different size (8×9 vs. 6×9) and has flimsy (but glossy) covers, while … Continue reading
In celebration of the opening of the Panama Canal, San Francisco and San Diego both decided to hold international expositions. San Francisco’s Panama-Pacific Exposition lasted almost ten months, while San Diego’s Panama-California Exposition was open the entire year. The Palace … Continue reading
Like the Milwaukee Road’s Lake Michigan to Puget Sound, this booklet was published by a third-party–Tom Jones of Cincinnati–for distribution by Barkalow Brothers News Service of Omaha “especially for the patrons of the” Union Pacific System, including the Oregon Short … Continue reading
This is a beautiful 40-page booklet (44 with covers), especially considering it is more than 100 years old. It contains 20 color lithographs, two of which are maps and the rest photos. I confess I may have increased the saturation … Continue reading
This 1937 booklet at first looks like a summary of the Summer Tours booklet for that year (which I’ll be posting in a couple of months). But this booklet doesn’t cover escorted tours; it merely shows alternative routings between Chicago … Continue reading
One more Milwaukee Road booklet from the Spokane Public Library’s Northwest Collection shows scenes in California, Nevada, and Oregon, three states not actually served by the Milwaukee. The 32-page booklet was published in 1960, just a year before the Milwaukee … Continue reading
