Aug 07, 2002 - Sale 1941

Sale 1941 - Lot 84

Price Realized: $ 1,150
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 700 - $ 1,000
BEN NASON THE BERKSHIRES. Circa 1945.
41 1/2x27 1/2 inches.
Condition A-: minor repaired tears in margins.
The strong trees, luscious green grass and bucolic villages of New England. One in a series of seven posters issued by the New Haven Railroad after the Second World War promoting New England vacation travel. "During World War Two, heavy military traffic demands forced the New Haven to actively discourage civilians from riding its trains for non-essential purposes. Once the war ended, however, the New Haven railroad set out to recapture the New England vacation travel business with large scale purchases of new passenger equipment and an unprecedented mass marketing campaign" (www.nhrta.org/htdocs/images1199.htm).