DESIGNER UNKNOWN "THE D & H" / DELAWARE AND HUDSON R.R. Circa 1890.
27x22 inches, 68 1/2x56 cm. American Bank Note Co., New York.
Condition B: tears, repaired tears, losses and water stains at edges, some affecting image; abrasions in margins and image. Paper.
A wonderful, early chromolithographed railroad poster replete with charming vignettes from New York City all the way north to Lake Champlain and Montreal. "The Delaware and Hudson embraces about eight hundred miles in its railroad system, and reaches a greater number of summer resorts and carries more tourists than any other railroad" (Appleton's Illustrated Hand-book of American Summer Resorts 1893, p. 17). The D & H began as a canal company, with the addition of the railroad in the early 1870s. The company lasted until 1991, when it was purchased by the Canadian Pacific Railway. rare.