Between the Princess Alice, Princess Louise, and Princess Charlotte, Canadian Pacific had departures from Vancouver to Skagway every three to four days in the summer of 1936. The Charlotte also did two 11-day cruises that differed from ordinary trips (which … Continue reading
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This unusual booklet was written by Katherine Hale, the pen name for Amelia Beers Warnock Garvin (1874-1956). Hale was something of a renaissance woman, being a poet, essayist, journalist, lecturer, and an opera singer. The text of this publication tells, … Continue reading
This fancy booklet is supposed to look like it was printed on wood, or at least wood-grained paper. It includes 17 color illustrations that are glued onto the pages. Click image to download an 8.7-MB PDF of this 36-page booklet. … Continue reading
Byron Harmon published this spiral-bound portfolio of eighteen black-and-white photos hand colored and printed using the Vandyck photogravure process. Unfortunately, I have no idea what the Vandyck process is and can’t find any information about it on the internet. Considering … Continue reading
We’ve previously seen Burlington booklets advertising the Cody Road entrance into Yellowstone Park from 1917, 1937, and 1946. This one happens to be from 1930. Click image to download a 5.1-MB PDF of this 12-page booklet. Young men may also … Continue reading
The Colorado & Southern Railway, which published this booklet in 1905, was a strange combination of a standard-gauge railroad trending north-south from Cheyenne, Wyoming to the Texas border and some narrow-gauge railroads trending east-west into the Colorado Rockies. The north-south … Continue reading
This undated booklet is filled with somewhat muddy black-and-white photos and interesting little art nouveau-style graphics. The booklet features the National Park Inn that was an early accommodation for those who wished to visit the park and Paradise Inn that … Continue reading
New Orleans’ Vieux Carre (town square), today known as the French Quarter, was already more than 200 years old when Southern Pacific published this informative booklet in 1927. New Orleans grew to be the nation’s third-largest city by 1840, and … Continue reading
Pullman published a dozen “fact” booklets in about 1929; this is number 11 and the only one I haven’t previously shown here. It claims that first-class sleeping car fares in Europe cost almost twice as much as in the United … Continue reading
While this 1948 booklet is supposed to be about vacationing in New York state, nearly 40 percent of it (11 pages) is devoted to just one region: the Adirondaks. The Catskills, Finger Lakes, and Emerald Isles get 2 pages each … Continue reading