These cards folded into two parts: the back of the picture has a form letter from Great Northern’s passenger traffic manager in St. Paul saying that the information requested is enclosed and, for more information, the recipient should contact Great … Continue reading
The first two cards today are dated 1925. The first shows an illustration of Glacier Park Lodge on one side, with room for correspondence. The other side has an illustration of the train’s maid entertaining two little girls in the … Continue reading
With the introduction of the new Oriental Limited in 1924, Great Northern issued a series of postcards to help advertise the trains. Unlike most postcards, these did not include an address section, so had to be mailed in an envelope. … Continue reading
These postcards are from the same series as yesterday’s, but exclusively show scenery rather than lodges and chalets. Except for the first one, these sights could all be found not far from Many Glacier Hotel. Click image to download a … Continue reading
Although these postcards are undated, I found them in a folder with other items from 1925 at the Minnesota History Center. These show various Great Northern-built hotels and lodges in the park. Click image to download a 184-KB PDF of … Continue reading
The Great Northern issued this series of postcards promoting its newly re-equipped Oriental Limited in 1924. We’ve already seen one of the cards in the series showing a P-2 locomotive pulling the train through the Washington Cascades. I copied all … Continue reading
These two cards were printed for Northern Pacific by Colourpicture Publishers of Boston, which was associated with the Tichnor Brothers. The company trademarked the term “plastichrome” in November, 1965, so the cards may date from 1966 through 1970 — though … Continue reading
These two postcards were printed for Northern Pacific by the H.S. Crocker Company , then of Chicago. Crocker dates back to 1856, when it started a print shop in Sacramento. The company still exists but now makes and prints lids … Continue reading
These oversized postcards are obviously from a completely different era than the ones presented in the last few days. I have more older postcards from the Minnesota History Center that I’ll get to soon, but these are from my own … Continue reading
The Ranch-o-Grams were a series of humorous postcards issued by Northern Pacific to promote dude ranches. Eight of them are shown in Railroad Postcards of Yellowstone of which I found five in the Minnesota History Center Northern Pacific archive. Click … Continue reading
