This 1928 booklet exemplifies the embossed-cover series of booklets issued from about 1927 through 1931. This is one of my favorites, mainly because its bright, red cover is matched by the reds and other colors in a dozen brilliant, hand-colored … Continue reading
This flyer came with the 1962 Yellowstone booklet and was clearly updated annually. The insert describes five different possible tours, all of which took 2-1/2 days and all of which cost $56.45 (about $325 today), including bus transport, hotel rooms, … Continue reading
This 1962 update has the same cover as the 1948 Yellowstone booklet, but inside is very different. The number of color photos has been more than doubled; most of the photos have been updated; and the page count has increased. … Continue reading
The 1948 Yellowstone guide has about a dozen color photos, which is an improvement over the eight found in the 1947 Colorado booklet, but well short of the nineteen in the 1948 California booklet. Photos such as the ones of … Continue reading
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
