This booklet, like many before it, is titled Alaska, Atlin and the Yukon.” However, a notice on page 7 reports that the White Pass Route had to discontinue Atlin service due to “heavy losses.” “The decision to discontinue tourist service … Continue reading
This beautiful booklet has heavy-duty covers that are 4.4-inches wide holding 10 pages that are 4-inches wide. But the next 10 pages unfold to be slightly more than 8-inches wide, thus allowing for panoramic photos that wouldn’t fit on a … Continue reading
This booklet is from the era when Canadian Pacific’s graphics artists hadn’t figured out how to use the four-color process to print more than four colors for things other than photographs. As a result, all of the print and many … Continue reading
This booklet closely resembles one that we’ve seen from 1932, but there are a few significant differences. The two cover paintings are obviously different, though they resemble one another because both were by the same artist, Charles W. Simpson. Click … Continue reading
We’ve previously seen a booklet with this cover from 1932. This one is from 1931 and has many of the same illustrations and similar text, though they were completely rearranged in 1932. Click image to download a 9.9-MB PDF of … Continue reading
We’ve previously seen Burlington booklets about Colorado and Utah from 1922 and 1926. This one is from 1916. Although the cover below (which is the back cover) gives equal billing to Colorado and Utah, it devotes 17 pages exclusively to … Continue reading
From at least 1902 through 1930, Rock Island regularly published a booklet about Colorado subtitled Under the Turquoise Sky. We’ve previously seen eight editions here including ones from 1907 and 1909. This one is from 1908 and not surprisingly is … Continue reading
In these post-COVID years I rarely think of a big city as a place to take a vacation. But I remember visiting Chicago many times in the past and going to places like the Field Museum, the Museum of Science … Continue reading
With a pink flamingo on the back representing Florida and a Native American on the front representing the Seminoles (and therefore the train), this booklet describes Illinois Central’s entry into the competition for Midwest-Florida traffic in the early 1920s. IC … Continue reading
After World War II, the New Haven Railroad began offering “Pilgrim Tours” of New England and eastern Canada. This booklet describes 51 two- to fifteen-day tours that were offered in 1947. The tours were unescorted but the ticket prices included … Continue reading
