?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 700 - $ 1,000
RHODE ISLAND. Circa 1945. 42x27 3/4 inches. Condition B+: repaired tears in left margin; repaired tear through bottom margin, affecting text. Along with the previous lot, 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)
