?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
TO ALL WHO TRAVEL BY THE. Circa 1882. 31x24 5/8 inches. J. M. Jones, Chicago. Condition B: vertical and horizontal folds; staining, creases and paper loss in right margin; losses and restoration in image. A rare and very early American travel poster most likely given to different railroad companies who could have filled in their names at the bottom. The different vignettes illustrate the trials of transportation without the railroad (a stage coach robbery and a mule-pulled boat along a canal), the luxuries of the railroad, including a dining car and a finely appointed lounge car, and the hustle and bustle of the West Coast ports, accessible by rail since the 1869 completion of the transcontinental railway. The diamond-shaped smokestack indicates that the train pictured was a wood-burning engine, rather than coal.
