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HERBERT M. STOOPS CASTELTON CUT-OFF / NEW YORK CENTRAL LINES. 1925. 40x253/4 inches. Latham Litho & Ptg. Co., Long Island City, NY. Condition B+: repaired tears and restoration in margins and corners, some affecting image. This was New York Central's first poster, issued in July 1925, in a campaign and a series that would cement their reputation as "railroading's most effective advertiser" (Zega p. 63). The poster "Commemorates the commissioning of its massive high-level Hudson River Bridge at Castleton, New York. Herbert Morton Stoops, a New York artist best known for his wartime art and western scenes, chose to focus his work on the bulk of the span's soaring concrete piers, atop which a locomotive's steam trail is barely visible." (Zega p. 68). Zega fig. 85.
