Tourist Map of Union Pacific and Connecting Lines
- Title:
- Tourist Map of Union Pacific and Connecting Lines
- Alternate Title:
- Tourist Map of Union Pacific and Connecting Lines
- Collection:
- Persuasive Maps: PJ Mode Collection
- Creator:
- Passenger Department, Union Pacific Railway
- Date:
- 1888
- Date 2:
- 2024-04-25
- ID Number:
- 2306.01
- File Name:
- PJM_2306_01.jpg
- Style/Period:
- 1870 - 1899
- Subject:
- Railroads
Advertising & Promotion
Pictorial - Measurement:
- 19 x 59 (centimeters, height x width)
- Notes:
- In the late 1880s, the Union Pacific Railway published a series of promotional pamphlets aimed at attracting tourist passengers to locations along its routes. Each pamphlet included extensive text about the area, black and white photos, and slightly differing versions of the same folding color map of the Railway’s western routes.
This map was included in the most comprehensive of these pamphlets, “A Description of the Western Resorts for Health and Pleasure reached via Union Pacific Railway.” The 68-page pamphlet begins with some 15 pages devoted to information about the Railway: agents, rates, meals, lines and branches, equipment, etc. There are seven chapters of detail about specific sights in Colorado, Wyoming, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Utah and California. And there chapters on Health, Hunting and Fishing. The cover of the brochure contains illustrations of Great Shoshone Falls; Dalles of the Columbia; Idanha Hotel, Soda Springs; and Garfield Beach, Great Salt Lake.
The map is dense with illustrations of specific western highlights, including Castle Rock, Yosemite, Mt. Hood and the geyser at Yellowstone. And there are also a number of generic western illustrations: Plowing Scene, Corn Field, Cowboy, Mining and The Noble Red Man. At the foot of the map is a chart of elevations along the Union Pacific’s Routes.
Union Pacific issued versions of this pamphlet (including the folding map) for different groups of states, including “Sights and Scenes in Idaho and Montana for Tourists” (32 pp.); “Sights and Scenes in Utah for Tourists” (48 pp.); and “California - Sights and Scenes for the Tourist” (38 pp.). The collection includes one of these, “Sights and Scenes in Oregon, Washington and Alaska for Tourists” (40 pp., 1888), ID #2342.
For other promotional railroad maps, including some using deceptive techniques, see Subject > Railroads.
For further information on the Collector’s Notes and a Feedback/Contact Link, see https://persuasivemaps.library.cornell.edu/content/about-collection-personal-statement and https://persuasivemaps.library.cornell.edu/content/feedback-and-contact - Source:
- Passenger Department, Union Pacific Railway. 1888. A Description of the Western Resorts for Health and Pleasure reached via Union Pacific Railway. Chicago: Rand McNally & Co.
- Format:
- Image
- Rights:
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