In May, 1923, Pendleton introduced the Yellowstone Park blanket
available in both single fold and double
fold lengths with felt bound
ends. A "single fold" blanket was a regular length blanket with felt trim
at each end. A "double fold" blanket was twice the length, two blankets
still attached end-to-end as they came off the loom, not having been
torn apart at their common seam. Outside ends were felt bound.
The "official"
Yellowstone Park blanket had a white body with
four stripes of blue, orange,
green and yellow at each end (below left),
similar in appearance to the Glacier Park (below right) but
with
different color stripes. Points in
the lower left hand corner of the
center field typically were the same color as the
outermost bar.
Yellowstone 4 point blanket on left, early Glacier Park blanket on right.
When the
Yellowstone Park blanket appeared, it took over other color
variations formerly offered as Glacier Park blankets: white or light grey
body with two old rose,
lavender, delft blue or black bars at each end,
and a camel body with two
brown, black, orange or delft blue end bars.
Pendleton began using square silk labels on its Glacier and
Yellowstone
blankets around 1923.
Similar labels appeared on other national park
blankets as they were introduced during the 1920s. From 1923 to 1941,
Yellowstone Park blanket
labels featured a buffalo within an octagon.
was the inspiration for Pendleton's prewar Yellowstone Park Blanket label (above right).
After WW II, Yellowstone Park concessionaires changed their logo to a bear within a circle
(above left). Pendleton's postwar Yellowstone Park blanket label changed too (above right).
After World War II, the Yellowstone Park blanket changed from four wide stripes
to seven pencil-thin stripes (typically black, red, green,
black, green, red and black,
with yellow sometimes substituting for red) on
each end of an
off-white body.
This postwar pencil stripe Yellowstone Park blanket (below right) is fairly common.
Other designs, including the current Grand
Teton blanket (above left), also appeared
as Yellowstone Park blankets. Yellowstone production ended
sometime in the 1990s.