We’ve previously seen a 12-page booklet from 1950 describing sights along the Southern Pacific’s Shasta Route. This one is from three decades earlier and fills 16 pages. Unlike the later booklet, this one includes more than 80 photos which, though small, are crisp and detailed. Also like the later booklet, the main cover (as shown below) is the back cover, not the front, a format SP used for many of its timetables and booklets.
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The booklet is dated November 24, 1920 and includes 1920 population data for the cities along the route. This reveals that the Census Bureau was a lot faster at publishing census data in the days before computers and electronic tabulations, as 2020 data for cities wasn’t available until early in 2021. Continue reading