Santa Fe produced wall calendars from the early 1900s through 1993, and all of them after 1914 featured paintings of the Southwest or Southwest Indians by one of the Chicago or Taos painters cultivated by the railway. From the early … Continue reading
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For the first 27 years after its completion in 1910, the SP&S Railway was powered by hand-me-down locomotives from its parents, the Great Northern and Northern Pacific. But in 1937 and 1938, it took delivery of its first brand-new locomotives, … Continue reading
In addition to the menus, our 1951 tourist also thoughtfully brought home this placemat and napkin. The placemat shows an extremely inauthentic Indian wigwam and decorations around the edge. Is the animal that was shot by an arrow a wolf? … Continue reading
My notes say this portfolio, which is from the Spokane Public Library Northwest Collection, was published in 1929, which is probably based on the tattered envelope the portfolio came in. The railway gave much greater care to this portfolio, which … Continue reading
Long before the Great Northern published its famous 1940 and 1958 portfolios of Winold Reiss paintings of Blackfoot Indians, it published this portfolio (which I scanned from the Spokane Public Library Northwest Collection) of Pikuni (Blackfoot) Indians by W. Langdon … Continue reading
Here’s another 1943 portfolio, like yesterday’s, from National Color Press. We’ve also seen a third one, Scenic Grandeur of the West, that was also dated 1943. Click image to download a 17.7-MB PDF of this folio. It seems surprising that … Continue reading
In 1943, a company called National Color Press put out a series of folios of photos taken along Southern Pacific lines. The photos are all hand-tinted from black-and-white originals; the photo shown below, for example, is from the same black-and-white … Continue reading
Frisch liked the six E7 locomotives (numbered 2000 to 2005) it purchased in 1948 for the Meteor and Texas Special so well that it soon added sixteen E8s (which were first made in 1949) for its other passenger trains. This … Continue reading
During World War II, Americans found themselves reading news reports from strange and exotic places such as Kursk, the Coral Sea, and Tunisia. Companies such as Union Pacific distributed world atlases to help people locate these places on the maps. … Continue reading
Janet Nolan was born on November 9, 1907 to Thomas and Barbara Ziegler Nolan. Though born in Washington, she went to high school in St. Paul where she won an oratorical contest that earned her a trip on the 1926 … Continue reading