Image of a fragment of a poster advertising an unidentified railroad with through cars from Cincinnati, Ohio, and Louisville, Kentucky, to cities in the South including New Orleans, Jacksonville, and Thomasville, with an image in the upper half of the poster of a landscape scene of a man and child in the foreground looking out over a snowy farm and a lower image of a man with a cigar and fan reclining on a porch overlooking the ocean; verso contains image fragments of the print "My Little White Kitties. / The First Mouse" by Currier and Ives; a cartoon captioned "A Happy Welcome" of a farmer picking up a baby signed "Felter"; the ornate interior of a railroad passenger car; and a portion of a lithograph by the Hatch Lith. Co. of a man in historical costume carving initials into a tree; images pasted to an account-book leaf. Probable date approximated by cataloger. A H D"--text, initials, bottom right of lower image. "[illegible] Cin. O"--text, bottom right of upper image. "Through cars / Cincinnati to New Orleans / Louisville to Jacksonville ... Louisville to Little Rock"--text, center of image.
Type
image
Extent
1 engraving : color printed ; overall 49.53 x 23.34 cm (19 1/2 x 9 3/16 in.)
Advertising--Railroads Winter--Pictorial works Tourism--Pictorial works Leisure--Pictorial works Intaglio prints--Color--1875-1900. (gmgpc) Posters. (gmgpc) Scrapbooks. (gmgpc)
Source
Jay T. Last Collection Transportation Large Size Railroad The Jay T. Last Collection of Graphic Arts and Social History, Huntington Digital Library
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