Here are the last of the Northern Pacific Acmegraphic postcards that I found in the Minnesota History Center. These all deal with water features, mainly waterfalls. Click image to download a 319-KB PDF of this postcard. The postcard calls these … Continue reading
Here are four Northern Pacific Acmegraph postcards featuring scenes in and around the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone River. Click image to download a 295-KB PDF of this postcard. This shows the Upper Falls of the Yellowstone. … Continue reading
Yellowstone Park and the national forests that surround it are one of the largest wild areas left in the contiguous 48 states, and they have become a haven for many species of wildlife ever since the army stopped the hunting … Continue reading
Robert Reamer’s masterpiece, Old Faithful Inn was opened in 1904 by the Yellowstone Park Company, which had been started by the Northern Pacific. Click image to download a 336-KB PDF of this postcard. This close-up photo shows part of the … Continue reading
Roads from Mammoth head both south to the geyser basins and east through the Lamar Valley and eventually to Yellowstone Canyon. Most people would go south as it led to the quickest payoff in terms of unique and unusual sites. … Continue reading
According to a book titled Railroad Postcards of Yellowstone, Northern Pacific bought “at least 34” postcards from the Acmegraph files. In fact, I found 36 in the Minnesota History Center’s Northern Pacific archives. These postcards are distinguished by having all … Continue reading
Yesterday’s vista-dome Christmas brochure provides a nice segue into a series of Northern Pacific postcards that I photographed at the Minnesota History Center. Over the years, Northern Pacific issued hundreds if not thousands of postcards of Yellowstone Park, and these … Continue reading
Today’s first menu features a P2 mountain-type locomotive, the pride of the Great Northern in 1926, pulling the Oriental Limited by Mount Index in the Washington Cascades. While the 44-hour Chicago-Seattle streamlined Empire Builder would later pass this scene in … Continue reading
The Minnesota History Center GN archive is full of little items relating to the Columbia River Historical Expedition. One of the educational features of the expedition was a museum car, curated by the Minnesota Historical Society’s Willoughby Babcock. This brochure … 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
