It’s Christmas season, and if you had been in Sun Valley sixty years ago, you might have been invited to sing Christmas carols out of one of these booklets. The inside front cover says, “Wishing You A Merry Christmas/May Good Health and Happiness/Be With You/Throughout the New Year, Compliments of Union Pacific Railroad.”
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Other than the beautiful front cover photo and inside front cover greeting, there is absolutely nothing in this booklet to connect it with the Union Pacific Railroad. The first page with a Christmas carol says the booklet was published by Garrison House, a calendar maker of that era. The inside back cover has the words to Clement Moore’s Night Before Christmas. The booklets were obviously published to Union Pacific’s order by Garrison House, and no doubt other companies issued similar booklets with different covers. Continue reading