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A new fast merchandise service second to none : in 11 western states ... Union Pacific provides fast, overnight merchandise delivery service from major jobbing centers to territorial markets

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Title: A new fast merchandise service second to none : in 11 western states ... Union Pacific provides fast, overnight merchandise delivery service from major jobbing centers to territorial markets
Contributor: Kemble, John Haskell, 1912-1990, donor
Date Created and/or Issued: 1935
1936
1937
1938
1939
1940
1941
1942
1943
1944
1945
Contributing Institution: Huntington Library
Collection: Prints and Ephemera
Rights Information: For information on use of Digital Library materials, please see Library Rights and Permissions: https://www.huntington.org/library-rights-permissions
Description: Poster is mounted on a board and may have had a stand at one time. "Built between 1936 and 1943, the Challengers were nearly 122 feet long and ... operated over most of the Union Pacific system, primarily in freight service, but a few were assigned to passenger trains operating through mountain territory to California and Oregon ..."--Union Pacific website, http://www.uprr.com/aboutup/history/loco/locohs01.shtml, retrieved 02/28/2007.
Type: image
Format: image/jpeg
Extent: Print ; image 28.7 x 46 cm (11 5/16 x 18 1/8 in.) ; overall 59.5 x 46 cm (23 7/16 x 18 1/8 in.)
Identifier: priJHK 00119
325624
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p9539coll1/id/12377
Subject: Union Pacific Railroad Company--Public relations
Railroads--United States--Pictorial works
Railroads--United States--Locomotives--Posters
Railroads--Posters
Advertising--United States--Posters--20th century
Posters, American--20th century
Advertising--Railroads--20th century
Posters
Source: John Haskell Kemble Collection
Posters
Prints and Ephemera, Huntington Digital Library

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