We’ve seen a booklet with the same cover as this one from 1950. This one is dated 1955. For the first 33 pages, there are almost no differences between the two. Even the graphic of a steam-powered passenger train on … Continue reading
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We’ve seen booklets with this cover before from 1948 and 1962. This one is from the middle of that range, 1955. The text and graphics in all three are similar, but many of the photos were changed over the years. … Continue reading
Unlike yesterday’s booklet, which was mostly text with some black-and-white photos, this one is mostly photos, and most of them are in color. Particularly noteworthy is the centerfold photo, which is in color but features the same skiers in the … Continue reading
Like Union Pacific’s 1947 Dude Ranch booklet, which briefly describes more than 100 dude ranches, this one consists mainly of brief descriptions of 55 different ski areas and various associated facilities reachable by Union Pacific. Most ski areas get four … Continue reading
“This statement,” says this booklet underneath the above headline, “made by a prominent American, happily expresses the popularity of the Centennial State with tourist and traveler.” It is somewhat mind-boggling how much railroad advertising aimed at getting people to visit … Continue reading
Yesterday’s 1911 Summer Tours booklet included six hand-colored lithographic photos. This one has eight, enough to have a photo on almost every other spread. One of the photos, of Yosemite Park’s El Capitan, was also in the 1911 booklet; the … Continue reading
Here is the 1930 edition of the booklets from 1913 and 1925 that we saw a few days ago. This one has a much more attractive front cover than the 1925 edition, but the interior pages are not as nicely … Continue reading
Here’s another in the same series of booklets shown in the last four days that is probably modeled on a prewar Union Pacific booklet. Though this one is dated 1951, the same as yesterday’s about Yellowstone, it has some significant … Continue reading
Unlike the booklets from last three days, we’ve haven’t seen this one before. But since it advertises a region accessed by Union Pacific, no doubt there is a version with Union Pacific’s name on the cover instead of C&NW. Also … Continue reading
Like yesterday’s booklet, we’ve seen this one before, only the previous one was marked for Union Pacific instead of Chicago and North Western System and was dated 1945 while this one is 1947. Click image to download an 18.0-MB PDF … Continue reading