Western USA Travel Lot 9: Vtg & Travel Ephemera Maps Photos Pikes Peak Railroad

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Photographs and Brochures for Colorado, New Mexico, Texas, Nevada and the Cascades:
Extensive collection of travel items related to the Western United States, including:
Pike’s Peak via the Manitou & Pike’s Peak Cog Road (Manitou, Colorado), Stewart Bros & Leas, 1916. Folder with two original 6”x8.5” photographs tipped in, one showing buildings at the peak and one depicting a group of people standing in front of a train, “
No. 2 Sept 29, 1916, On Pike’s Peak”
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The Pikes Peak Auto Highway, “Most Marvelous Road Building Achievement of the Age”. Stapled wraps, many photographs, n.d., ca. 1920 from photographs of automobiles (shortly after building of the highway in 1915).
Lake Michigan to Puget Sound, Electrically through the Rockies, Bitter Root and Cascade Mountains Along the Chicago Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway, Inter-state Co (Minneapolis), 1914. Large booklet with string binding and gilt-decorated cover. Elaborate tipped-in photo book with scenes along the railway, including a route map in front of the railroad that was notable for being the longest electrified railway of its time.
Stedman, Wilfred (illustrator), Historic Trails through New Mexico, the Land of Enchantment (folding map), New Mexico State Tourist Bureau. Pictorial map by Stedman. 17”x21.5”. 3” tear at top and some short tears below along fold line.
Nevada’s Diamond Jubilee 75th Anniversary Program, Schnitzer’s Beer Garden Revue, sponsored by the Lions Club of Virginia City, celebrating the 75th anniversary of Nevada's statehood, 1939. Stapled wraps, 8 pages with covers, including advertising.
Texas Guide and Folding Map, Published by the Texas Highway Dept, n.d.
The Denver Zephyrs, Burlington Route postcard, 1954 postmarked.
Your Coast Daylight Trip, San Francisco – Los Angeles, small folding brochure of the Southern Pacific train route along the Pacific Coast with timetable. Some tears along edges.
Carlsbad Caverns National Park, New Mexico, 32 page brochure, n.d., illustrated.
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