The map-on-cover version of the Yellowstone booklet retains the boring beige cover of the embossed edition. Previous visitors to the park will recognize the approximately correct placement of Old Faithful Geyser on the cover map, but the map gives the … Continue reading
This 1929 tour guide has the mandatory image of Old Faithful, surrounded by gold printing, on the cover. If the green cover of the Pacific Northwest booklet represents evergreen forests and the brown cover of the California booklet represents late … Continue reading
In 1923, Union Pacific published a Yellowstone booklet with a painted cover similar to California Calls You and the 1923 Pacific Northwest booklet. I don’t have the Yellowstone version (which is pictured below the jump), but I do have a … Continue reading
Although UP still used the color-photo format for its regional guides, by 1964 it had changed its summer tour booklet into an 8×9 brochure using flimsier paper. However, there are still plenty of tours offered: I count 13 ranging from … Continue reading
Although UP adopted a smaller colored-photo format for its regional tour guides as early as 1948, as shown yesterday the Summer Tours booklets retained the larger format at least through 1950. However, this 1952 booklet uses the smaller format. Click … Continue reading
The C&NW/UP Department of Tours offered 15 different tours in 1941. (Update: I originally listed this for the 1942 season, but it is for 1941.) These included a 7-day tour to Colorado, 7-, 8-, and 9-day tours to Yellowstone, 10- … Continue reading
Despite the Depression, by 1932 the C&NW/UP Department of Tours was offering nine escorted tours that could last anywhere from nine to twenty-four days including travel time from and to Chicago. The booklet describing these tours includes more than twenty … Continue reading
This embossed-cover booklet offers tours to Yellowstone and Rocky Mountain national parks (“Y tours”), to Zion and Grand Canyon national parks (“Z tours”–Bryce Canyon was not designated a national park until 1928), and to California (“C tours”). The booklet is … Continue reading
In 1959, Union Pacific updated its Colorado booklet, this time with a lot more color photos. In fact, there are more than 40 color photos compared with only three in black-and-white (plus six more in the back advertising other Union … Continue reading
This post-war booklet contains just nine color photos and 38 black-and-white ones. At least in this case most of the black-and-white photos appear on pages that have other black-and-white photos. But why not put a color interior photo of the … Continue reading
