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STANLEY BROWER (DATES UNKOWN) SEE TWICE AS MUCH OF THE UNITED STATES / ON SOUTHERN PACIFIC'S 4 SCENIC ROUTES. 1938. 23x15 3/4 inches, 58 1/2x40 cm. Condition A. One in a series of posters promoting Southern Pacific's new streamlined trains. Here, the Daylight is blazing its way out of a map of the United States superimposed over a star-spangled emblem that looks like a railroad spike. In the mid-1930s, Southern Pacific's advertising manager, F. Q. Treadway, chose to illustrate "bold speed-styled profiles" on the company's posters. Zega p. 109.
