Yellowstone Falls Postcards

Posted on by March 18, 2017
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A tourist visiting Mammoth and the geyser basins would follow up with a trip to Yellowstone Canyon. These postcards show the canyon and waterfalls in Yellowstone. Click on any image to download a PDF of that card.

To get to canyon overlooks on the east side of the river, tourists would cross this bridge which was built in 1903 (and replaced in 1963). It is a Melan arch bridge and is notable for being made of concrete that would entirely poured in just 74 hours. This particular card was sent by the Northern Pacific to a potential tourist in Pennsylvania, but there’s no date on the postmark.

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Geyser Postcards

Posted on by March 18, 2017
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Though there are more than 300 geysers in Yellowstone Park, most people never see the eruption of more than one or, if they are lucky, two or three. Click on any image to download a 300- to 500-KB PDF of the postcard.

Coming from Gardiner and Mammoth, travelers first visit the Norris Geyser Basin, home of more than a dozen geysers. If they walk through the basin, one of the first geysers they will see is Constant Geyser, so named because of its frequent eruptions. When Asahel Curtis took this photo for the Northern Pacific, it was called Minute Man Geyser, but that name is now used for a much more remote geyser. This card is postmarked 1924 and has a message from someone planning to spend five days in Yellowstone, then California, then up the coast to Canada, then the Canadian Rockies.

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Mammoth Hot Springs Postcards

Posted on by March 18, 2017
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From the Gardiner entrance, Mammoth Hot Springs was the first stop in Yellowstone Park. Mammoth was surrounded by terraces of a kind of limestone known as travertine.

This color card is from a painting by Gustav Krollman, who made many more detailed paintings for Northern Pacific posters. The back of the card mentions the North Coast Limited but says nothing about air conditioning, suggesting it is from the early 1930s.

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The Gardiner Gateway to Yellowstone

Posted on by March 18, 2017
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The Northern Pacific was proud to call Gardiner the “original entrance to Yellowstone National Park” and, from 1903 until Union Pacific built to West Yellowstone in 1908, the only one reached by a railroad. These postcards show views in and around Gardiner. Click any image to download a PDF of that postcard, all of which are 350 KB to 500 KB.

NP’s train station at Gardiner was built on a loop that allowed the train to turn and head back to the main line at Livingston. This card was not issued by the railroad but does present an overview of the town.

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Aboard the North Coast Limited

Posted on by March 18, 2017
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I’ll be posting Northern Pacific postcards for the next several days. Today, I have three advertising the heavyweight North Coast Limited and two more that don’t fit into other categories. Except where noted, PDFs are about 400 to 500 kilobytes.


Click image to download a PDF of this postcard.

This postcard was mailed from Fargo to someone in Le Sueur, Minnesota on June 27, 1936. The rather snooty-looking people in the drawing must be taking advantage of the North Coast Limited‘s air conditioning, as advertised on the back. However, the writer of the card notes, “Having a nice hot ride. Everything looks dry.”

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Escorted Tours to Yellowstone: 1916

Posted on by February 20, 2017
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One hundred years ago, someone could go from Chicago to Yellowstone, take a six-day, all-expense-paid tour of the park, and return for just $112.50. That included transportation, meals, and hotel accommodations at the park, and a lower berth but not meals on board the train. Before you get excited about the low price, $112.50 in 1916 is more than $2,500 in today’s dollars.

Click image to download an 8.0-MB PDF of this 20-page booklet (plus fold-out map).
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This price was for an escorted tour. This booklet also has prices for extensions of the trip to the Northwest, California, and Colorado, though it appears that those trips are not escorted. The escorted tours left Chicago and St. Louis every Sunday from June 18 through September 3.

Land of Geysers: 1916

Posted on by February 18, 2017
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This edition is greatly expanded from yesterday’s 1913 version, with 50 percent more interior pages and what appears to be completely different text. From archive.org, we can see that a 1915 edition is substantially the same as this one. The front cover is supposed to represent John Colter and Native American guides, while (as shown below) the back is a continuous scene showing modern-day tourists.

Click image to download a 21.7-MB PDF of this 52-page booklet.

Maybe I just like color, but none of the NP geyser booklets compare with Union Pacific’s 1910 Where Gush the Geysers, which has numerous color lithographs that are far more appealing than the black-and-white photos in the Northern Pacific booklets. We know that NP’s reluctance to spring for full-color pictures in its advertising continued at least through 1948.
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The Land of Geysers: 1913

Posted on by February 18, 2017
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Several editions of this booklet are available on archive.org. The earliest one there is dated 1906 and it is completely different from this 1913 edition. The 1907 edition, however, has much of the same text as this one, though they share few if any photographs. By 1909, NP began using the cover shown here.

Click image to download a 15.1-MB PDF of this 36-page booklet.
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Northern Pacific had a near-monopoly on transportation to Yellowstone until 1907, when Union Pacific opened its line to West Yellowstone. Perhaps the pending loss of that monopoly is what inspired the northern railway to step up its advertising efforts with publication of Land of Geysers.

SP&S Timberline Lodge Breakfast Menu

Posted on by February 16, 2017
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This 1969 menu has the same format as yesterday’s 1958 menu, as well as one from 1965. Most railroads were curtailing their services in 1969, but it doesn’t show in this menu.

Click image to download a 1.7-MB PDF of this menu.

The menu offers three plate breakfasts, a low-calorie breakfast, and plenty of a la carte items. The most expensive breakfast, at $2.05 (about $13.50 in today’s dollars), offers fruit or juice, cereal, bacon or ham and eggs with toast or muffins, and a beverage. Pancakes or French toast could be substituted for the eggs and meat.
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Bonneville Dam Menu

Posted on by February 3, 2017
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Dated January 1958, this menu offers a pretty wide selection of meals. The table d’hôte side has four entrées: prime rib, veal cutlets, baked salmon, and chicken a la king. With appetizers, soup, potatoes, vegetable, bread, dessert, and beverage, these meals are all $2.95 (about $25 in today’s dollars) except the prime rib which is $3.25 (about $27 today). There is also a “plate dinner,” which is a “chef’s suggestion” or ham or cheese omelet, with potatoes, vegetable, bread, dessert, and beverage for $1.95 (about $16 today). I wonder what the chef suggested.

Click image to download an 2.0-MB PDF of this menu.

Entrées on the a la carte side include omelets, lamb chops, eggs, sirloin steak, veal, roast beef, chicken a la king, and sardines. There are also soups, vegetables, salads, samdwiches, breads, and desserts. All by itself, the sirloin steak is $3, or about $25 today.
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