Published fourteen years after yesterday’s booklet, this one has a bright new cover. But inside, so little has changed that I almost didn’t bother to scan it. The first 40 pages have text that is nearly identical to the 1948 … Continue reading
Here’s Burlington’s answer to Union Pacific’s color-photo Colorado booklet. The Burlington booklet has a brilliant color cover whose location I don’t recognize. But in contrast to the numerous color photos in the UP booklet, the Burlington version has just black-and-white … Continue reading
By 1938, the Burlington Escorted Tours booklet had grown to 72 pages, plus the covers. I count 25 regular tours (including four Alaska tours that are now weekly through much of the summer), plus eight “bargain tours” (which provide tourist … Continue reading
This is an example of the fully illustrated booklets that were mentioned in the introductions to the 1927 and 1928 “outline sketch” versions. The 1927 edition said that the fully illustrated version was 48 pages; the 1928 edition said 56 … Continue reading
The cover of the 1928 booklet has the same image and typography as the 1927 edition, but the addition of two colors, orange and blue, make for a more attractive cover as well as testify to the success of the … Continue reading
If you had picked up a Northern Pacific Yellowstone National Park booklet in 1926 or 1927 and asked for more information about Burlington Escorted Tours, they might have given you this 16-page booklet. According to the introduction, an even longer, … Continue reading
Previously, I noted that Union Pacific published travel booklets for, among other places, Rocky Mountain National Park. I don’t have one of UP’s booklets for that park, but here is a 1924 booklet about the park from the Burlington. Click … Continue reading
This booklet was published two or three years after yesterday’s tour book, which came out in 1925 or shortly thereafter. The only date I can find in this one is February 1928 on the centerfold map. This only proves it … Continue reading
This 60-page booklet includes 55 black-and-white photos describing Yellowstone Park and the surrounding area–several featuring the Cody Gateway–as well as the trains tourists could take to reach the region. It also announces the creation of “Burlington Escorted Tours,” a joint … Continue reading
This booklet is undated, but judging from the bouffant hairstyles it must be from the late 1960s. Disneyland and Marineland are now important attractions, every photograph in the brochure is in color, and a stencil font is used for many … Continue reading
