?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
ROBERT E. LEE AMERICAN RAILWAY EXPRESS / OUR SERVICE AT YOUR CALL. 1925. 36x56 inches. Seitter & Kappes, New York. Condition B: vertical and horizontal folds; repaired tears and creases in margins and image; overpainting and restoration in image. A finely turned-out woman and her daughter, whose luggage has been sent ahead via this shipping company, are waiting to board a train. Visible in the background is a truck prominently displaying a poster on its side. These American Railway Express posters were used on company trucks, which had billboards on either side. By some accounts, the posters were changed as often as every month. American Railway Express came into being during the First World War, when the U.S. Government nationalized the country's shipping and freight industries. Although run by the government, the majority of the company was owned by American Express, and its president at the time was also the president of American Railway Express.
