Oct 18, 2013 - Sale 2326

Sale 2326 - Lot 176

Price Realized: $ 6,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 4,000 - $ 6,000
M. GUNDLACH (DATES UNKNOWN) SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA / GO VIA - UNION PACIFIC SYSTEM. Circa 1920.
42 1/2x28 inches, 108x71 cm.
Condition B: repaired tears, restoration, creases and overpainting in image; overpainting and restoration in margins.
A rare, early poster for travel to California. We could only locate one other copy in the Wisconsin Historical Society. The bucolic landscape depicts the mountains, rolling hills, fields and foliage of Southern California, complete with golf players and a distant mission. The railroad's logo that appears on this poster was only used between 1914 and 1932.