Illustrated brochure for the Cody Road into Yellowstone via the Burlington Route of the Chicago, Burlington, and Quincy lines. “Have you ever heard of the Cody Road into Yellowstone Park?” This brochure is happy to educate. Text and photographs “Along the Road” offer something of a guided tour of.....
This appealing and apparently unrecorded broadside advertises hiking excursions up Mt. Tamalpais, some 22 miles north of San Francisco in Marin County, California. “Personally conducted” by one Dawson Mayer, these excursions accommodated up to 60 people and cost $2.50, including a luncheon at the Tavern of Tamalpais. Offered between May.....
A land promotion broadside advertising transportation via the St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern Railway to the company’s land grant and elsewhere. Promising the “shortest and quickest route” to points in Missouri, Arkansas and Texas, this broadside publishes the “liberal rates and allowance of baggage for Seekers of land.....
A souvenir program for La Fiesta de Los Angeles, a celebration of the history of California, which took place between 10 April and 13 April 1894 in downtown Los Angeles. Includes an account of the grand carnival, with its origins and purpose, as well as an historical sketch of Southern.....
An railway brochure and map issued in the midst of the Great Dakota Boom. A folding brochure with 8 panels of promotional text and 5 panels of railroad time tables advertising not only its “Low Rates to Settlers and Land Hunters” but also that it “Runs More Through Trains from.....
A striking and extensively detailed map of Yellowstone National Park, in a Northern Pacific Railway brochure promoting travel to both Yellowstone and Alaska. This fine map depicts the park and its surrounding areas, with relief represented pictorially. At the top of the map, the Northern Pacific R.R. runs parallel.....
This pamphlet details a western excursion offered by the E. M. Jenkins Tourist Agency (formerly, Cook, Son & Jenkins). Originating in Boston and New York and lasting forty-six days (from 17 April to 2 June, 1882), this 8,600-mile-long trip by train and stage took its participants through Kansas, Nebraska, Colorado.....
A brochure promoting the Tishomingo region in the decade following the last of the Oklahoma land rushes. The old capital of the Chickasaw Nation and the county seat of Johnson County, Oklahoma, Tishomingo was primed for great things after statehood thanks to its Rock Island-Frisco railway connections, natural resources.....
This scarce pamphlet on the state of the dairy industry in Nebraska provides a “sketch of the creameries of the State, and those which have been built in the Platte valley during the year…to show the profitable working of the system to the manufacturer, and the demand for an increase.....
This land promotion pamphlet, issued by the Old Burlington & Missouri R.R. Co., asserts that its purpose is to “understate rather than exaggerate the facts in regard to the B&M lands. No good could result from any other course, in fact much harm must follow.” Offered is an overview of.....
An attractive promotional pamphlet describing the route of the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy railroad from Chicago to Denver, celebrating the natural wonders, resources, and business possibilities of the vast, vigorous, growing empire of the west and southwest. Compiled from the original manuscript of Col. P. Donan, and narrated from.....
A promotional broadside centering on “poet-prospector” Clarence E. Eddy’s evocative narrative of his discovery of a new mine in central Idaho, which he now announces to the public. Featured at the top is “one of the few pictures thus far taken at the new Monte Cristo mine” in Custer.....
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An unrecorded pair of broadsides advertising an early silent film adaptation of Jack London’s novel Burning Daylight, produced by and starring film industry pioneer Hobart Bosworth. Burning Daylight tells the story of one Elam Harnish, an enormously energetic and successful Klondike Gold Rush miner, better known as “Burning Daylight,”.....
A rare photographic trade card for Henry J. Kruse, a German emigre drawn to Colorado in 1860 at the age of 22 by the lure of the gold fields. Failing to strike it rich, Kruse abandoned mining and took up baking, thus launching a career that would see him emerge.....
A scarce and attractive promotional broadsheet with map issued by the St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern Railway, advertising special railway offers to emigrants headed to Texas. This broadsheet announces cheap excursion tickets, free baggage (up to 200 lbs.), and reduced emigrant rates for departures from St. Louis on.....