Apr 21, 2005 - Sale 2039

Sale 2039 - Lot 133

Price Realized: $ 1,495
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,000
STANLEY BROWER SOUTHERN PACIFIC'S FOUR SCENIC ROUTES. 1938.
23x16 inches.
Condition A. Paper.
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 portraits" on the company's posters. Zega 109.