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100 YEARS OF THE RAILROAD / BALTIMORE & OHIO CENTENARY PAGEANT. 1927.
40x26 inches, 101 1/2x66 cm. Ketterlinus, Philadelphia. Condition A-: repaired tears at edges, some slightly into image; archival tape on verso; scratch in upper right image. Paper.
"As noted in Railway Age, Baltimore & Ohio commissioned four posters to announce its centenary pageant in 1927. The most effective designs compared the line's first locomotive, tiny Tom Thumb, to the modern Pacific-class President Washington" (Zega p. 83).
