In the January Heirloom, More What’s in Your Closet; Summit Hotel pictures
Norden Store reminiscence (Milli Martin); Reflections on another Jim Sherritt photograph; From the Archives of the DSHS 1902 tunnel idea; Book Review How to Survive History; Travels West (1877) Donner Summit Quotes; Making History Colorful; A Letter to the Editor – a reminiscence; Odds & Ends of Donner Summit; virtual reality visit to Donner Summit train tunnels
In the February Heirloom: Cisco Revisited I; Stagecoach Interlude; From the Archives of Placer County; From the Archives of the DSHS; Book Review: The WPA Guide to California 1939
Making History Colorful; Odds & Ends of Donner Summit; Truckee Museums
In the March Heirloom: Cisco Revisited II; The Auburn Ski Club; Snowshoe Thompson; Snowshoe Thompson Expdition; Red Mountain; Hiking Red Mountain; From the Archives of the DSHS; Book Review: Across the Continent 1865; Odds & Ends of Donner Summit; Museums of Truckee; Mapping the Heroes.
In the April Heirloom: Donner Summit Art in the Context of the 19th Century WorldThis month’s Heirloom got a little long so we had to dispense with some regular features like our book review, Odds & Ends, Making History colorful, and the Archives. We didn’t want you to have an Heirloom that you could not finish in one month. What we have this month is a lot of 19th Century art and text about the artists. We focused on Donner Summit art to show its place in the wider scheme of things at the time. We've also included the conclusion of last month's History Expeditions' Snowshoe Thompson Expedition. Next month there will be even more, but with different emphases and maybe we’ll get back the regular features – we’ve inserted them tentatively in the May, ’24 Heirloom.
In the May Heirloom: Continuation from April, ‘24; Albert Bierstadt and 19th Century Landscape Art; Gilbert Munger, artist; Illustrative 19th Century Landscape Art (many pen and ink drawings of the time); Painting in Prose; Odds & Ends of Donner Summit.; Museums of Truckee. We also had to leave out some of our regular features but you should be more than compensated by all the art.
In the June Heirloom: More 19th Century Donner Summit landscape art; Painting in Prose II; From the Placer County Archives; From the Archives of the DSHS; Emails to the Editor; Book Review: the Places We Run; Making History Colorful; Odds & Ends of Donner Summit
In the July 2024 Heirloom:Tunnel 6 Details with lots of railroad pictures; The First Train Over Donner Summit (that was not a construction train); The First Passenger Train Over Donner Summit six months later; One Last Thing; Morford’s Scenery and Sensation Handbook 1878 review
In the August 2024 Heirloom: Dangerous Highway 40; Clearing Highway 40 in winter; What’s in Your Closet; Donner Summit Hub; From the Archive sof the TDHS; Book Review Across the Continent (1865); Making History Colorful; Odds & Ends of Donner Summit
In the September 2024 Heirloom: The 2O Mile Museum Story; Donner Summit prior to the Interstate; old time traffic over the Dutch Flat Rd.
In the October 2024 Heirloom:Goofy and the Art of Skiing (on Donner Summit of course); A Man in Paradise (on Donner Summit of course) 1874; The Last Auto Over the Pass (1911); Dangerous Highway 40 Pt II; Car wreck IN the snowsheds; From the Archives of the DSHS; Odds & Ends of Donner Summit – Rhino Rock; Morford’s Scenery and Sensation Handbook of the Pacific Railroads 1878
In the November 2024 Heirloom: Donner Summit In the Old Days II:1939 Accommodations, businesses, and ski areas. Johnny Ellis; Prejudice against Chinese; “A Rascal Killed by Chinamen”; A Gem from the Research Dept.; From the Archives of the DSHS: “ the effect is precisely that of the interior of some of Gothic cloister or abbey hall, the light streaking through narrow side-windows.”; Book Review A Complete Official Road Guide of the Lincoln Highway 1924; 1924 ads; Advice to Auto Travelers 1924; Advice to Emigrants; Making History Colorful; Odds & Ends of Donner Summit.
In the December, ’24 Heirloom:Happy Holidays; Donner Lake view - stunning; Detail in Old Photographs; Donner Summit weather station – unique views, And then more pictures and the story; State of California archival views of Donner Summit; The complete Guide to the Lincoln Highway 1915 book review, Along with lots of 1915 ads and an equipment list with advice; Painting in Prose from 1870 from Pictorial of California; Odds & Ends of Donner Summit