At about 1-3/4″x2-1/4″, these are much smaller than luggage stickers, which were typically around 3″x6″. These stickers were probably applied to menus to call diners’ attention to selected items available from Great Northern kitchens. Click any image to download a … Continue reading
Next year will be the 150th anniversary of the Golden Spike at Promontory Point, which means these stamps, issued for the 75th anniversary, are themselves almost 75 years old. The Union Pacific logo is flanked by locomotive 119 on the … Continue reading
Here are three more note pad sheets advertising Union Pacific trains. I’m told that the note pad these came from contained all three of these plus the three shown yesterday in rotation. Again, the Overland logo dates these to before … Continue reading
Each of the sheets from this note pad advertise different Union Pacific trains. The three trains advertised on these sheets all continued to operate at least until 1954. However, the Union Pacific Overland logo indicates that these pads were printed … Continue reading
Here are two more menus used by American Legionnaires going home from the 1938 convention in Los Angeles. We’ve seen both of these covers before, but these come with a couple of extras. Click image to download a 2.3-MB PDF … Continue reading
Here are few items from the Milwaukee Road. One is from my collection, but most are just images I found on the web. Click image to download a 456-KB PDF of this envelope. First is this ticket envelope advertising the … Continue reading
Here we have the Alex Dulfer Kodachrome version of the packet of Coast and Valley photos. Many of these seem to be deliberate re-creations of the photos included in the National Color Press folio: photos of the Golden Gate Bridge, … Continue reading
Here is Alex Dulfer’s version of sixteen color photos for the Overland Route. Like the Shasta Route photos, they are better quality than the National Color Press photos, or at least they have aged better. Click image to download a … Continue reading
Some time after 1948 — I’m guessing around 1950 — a company called Alex Dulfer Lithographing issued a new set of 16 color photos of the Shasta Route. Like the National Color Press set, these would have been sold in … Continue reading
After discarding all of the photographs that are duplicates of ones in other sets in this series, this packet has even fewer unique photos than the Overland Route folio. Just two photos, one of Hollywood Boulevard and one of “the … Continue reading
