Image of a poster advertising the Iron Mountain Route of the Missouri Pacific Railroad with a lithographed vignette in the upper right of three children in a room decorated with a Christmas tree, with one boy writing the names of three Christmas trains on a folded blackboard and an infant pretending to drive a locomotive made of furniture; second lithographed vignette in the middle left of a perspective view of a steam locomotive on tracks in a winter scene; background ornamented with sprig of holly. Probable date approximated from similar advertisements for route. "Woodward & Tiernan Ptg. Co. St. Louis,"--text, bottom center margin. "Winter Tourist Tickets at Greatly Reduced Rates on sale at all principal coupon offices / Trains Fully Equipped with Pullman Buffet Sleeping Cars and Free Reclining Chaircars run through solid from St. Louis to Galveston in 36 Hours."--text, lower half of image.
Type
image
Extent
1 letterpress : color printed ; overall 75.09 x 30.16 cm (29 9/16 x 11 7/8 in.)
Advertising--Railroads Children--Pictorial works Christmas--Pictorial works Locomotives--Pictorial works Railway mail service--United States--Pictorial works Railroads--Pictorial works Winter--Pictorial works Missouri Pacific Railroad Company Relief prints--Color--1875-1900. (gmgpc) Posters. (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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