Having published a brochure based on the fictitious Alice in Wonderland writing home at the end of a trip to Yellowstone, NP decided to write a brochure based on the fictitious diary of a lovelorn Massachusetts school teacher. It is … Continue reading
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Northern Pacific began serving Yellowstone in 1883 and this quirky brochure was one of its first advertisements for that service. This particular brochure was published in 1885, but an earlier edition came out in 1883. Click image to download a … Continue reading
In 1950, Edmonds was a small town of about 2,000 people working in sawmills and other factories. By 1960, however, its population had nearly quadrupled, and nearly tripled again in the 1960s, as Seattle workers sought single-family homes in low-density … Continue reading
I have this beautiful cover listed as a “missing menu” on my page of Canadian National menu series. Rather than a menu, however, today’s item is the itinerary of a 1949 trip of the American Association of Railroad Ticket Agents … Continue reading
This map presents Jasper National Park in heavy relief, or what the Great Northern called an “aeroplane view.” Frankly, all of the mountain peaks look alike, making the map hard to read. Click image to download an 7.1-MB PDF of … Continue reading
This brochure unfolds to present not one but two very large maps. On one side is a relief map of southern British Columbia and Alberta showing the “Triangle Tour”: CN train from Jasper to Prince Rupert, CN steamship from Prince … Continue reading
The cover of this four-page brochure features a painting by Sydney Laurence (1865-1940), whose art Northern Pacific also used on posters. This painting of a place called Castle Cape is colored quite a bit differently from an image shown on … Continue reading
The David Rumsey Collection dates this brochure to 1910, the year Glacier Park was created. But it is clearly from after that as the map shows all of Great Northern’s Glacier Park hotels, several of which were first opened in … Continue reading
We’ve previously seen a Union Pacific/North Western summer tours booklet from 1952. This brochure would have been an introduction to the 1950 version of that booklet. Click image to download a 1.6-MB PDF of this brochure. The 1950 brochure and … Continue reading
The cover of this 1938 brochure illustrates Zion, Bryce, and the Grand Canyon in colors that in one sense are unrealistic yet in another sense are perfectly accurate for such a varied country. As page two of the brochure says, … Continue reading