My notes say this portfolio, which is from the Spokane Public Library Northwest Collection, was published in 1929, which is probably based on the tattered envelope the portfolio came in. The railway gave much greater care to this portfolio, which … Continue reading
Long before the Great Northern published its famous 1940 and 1958 portfolios of Winold Reiss paintings of Blackfoot Indians, it published this portfolio (which I scanned from the Spokane Public Library Northwest Collection) of Pikuni (Blackfoot) Indians by W. Langdon … Continue reading
Here’s another 1943 portfolio, like yesterday’s, from National Color Press. We’ve also seen a third one, Scenic Grandeur of the West, that was also dated 1943. Click image to download a 17.7-MB PDF of this folio. It seems surprising that … Continue reading
In 1943, a company called National Color Press put out a series of folios of photos taken along Southern Pacific lines. The photos are all hand-tinted from black-and-white originals; the photo shown below, for example, is from the same black-and-white … Continue reading
Frisch liked the six E7 locomotives (numbered 2000 to 2005) it purchased in 1948 for the Meteor and Texas Special so well that it soon added sixteen E8s (which were first made in 1949) for its other passenger trains. This … Continue reading
During World War II, Americans found themselves reading news reports from strange and exotic places such as Kursk, the Coral Sea, and Tunisia. Companies such as Union Pacific distributed world atlases to help people locate these places on the maps. … Continue reading
Janet Nolan was born on November 9, 1907 to Thomas and Barbara Ziegler Nolan. Though born in Washington, she went to high school in St. Paul where she won an oratorical contest that earned her a trip on the 1926 … Continue reading
In 1832, the American Fur Company struck a number of medals bearing the image of John Jacob Astor, the company founder, to give to friendly Native Americans at Fort Union. Today, only seven silver and five copper medals are still … Continue reading
In 1743, the Verendrye Expedition reached a point in what is now South Dakota and buried a lead plate marking their visit in the name of the king of France. In 1908, some children playing in a field near Pierre … Continue reading
Someone worked hard to compile this list of more than 150 named Santa Fe passenger trains, the numbers they used, the years they operated, and their terminal cities. The brief intro says it is based on timetables from 1876, 1886 … Continue reading
