Other than the cover and the godawful yellow paper it is printed on, this brochure is almost identical to the 1928 edition presented here a couple of days ago. The yellow paper is not an improvement, but it might have … Continue reading
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The 68-page Magic Yellowstone booklets presented here yesterday included an essay by conservationist and novelist Emerson Hough (1857-1923). That same essay is included on three panels of this eighteen-panel brochure. The brochure also has lots of black-and-white photos, a brief … Continue reading
This brochure, which is from the NPRHA — Lorenz Schrenk collection, is similar in basic format to yesterday’s. However, the map on the back is completely different, being an oblique aerial view of the region showing geographic relief. While 11 … Continue reading
This brochure advertises trips to Yellowstone National Park under what today would be considered primitive conditions. Roads were dirt, vehicles were bumpy stagecoaches, and while the brochure says that the park’s four hotels “compare favorably with those of metropolitan cities,” … Continue reading
Sometime in the late 1940s, SP&S adopted this timetable cover–green with its large red oval logo on top and two smaller logos of parent GN and NP railways below–and used it for about two decades. This one, dated October 1958, … Continue reading
This brochure offers one-day, two-day, and three-day tours of Glacier National Park. The one-day tours cost $23.76 ($280 in today’s money) including bus transport in the park, boat fare on Two Medicine Lake, four meals, and one night’s lodging. Starting … Continue reading
Here is the 1974 version of the 1970 brochure presented here a few days ago. Much of the text is the same, but the marketing department managed to squeeze 24 photos into a brochure that previously had just 17, mainly … Continue reading
Instead of the pre-war booklets which were 20 or more pages long, in 1970 CN advertised its Alaska steamship service with this brochure, which opens up to the equivalent of about six pages. But those pages are filled with color … Continue reading
Despite the title, this brochure is in English and unfolds to the equivalent of a 12-page booklet. Filled with 22 color photos, it is a significant advance on the dreary Ontario booklet shown here a couple of days ago, which … Continue reading
This 1939 brochure unfolds into a massive 24″x33″ sheet that has slightly more space than one of Canadian National’s 20-page booklets. CN issued many 16- to 24-page booklets covering similar material, including one with the same name as this in … Continue reading