Union Pacific Streamliners Railway Pullman Art Deco

£1,500.00

Original vintage travel advertising poster for Union Pacific Streamliners featuring a great design against a pale green background depicting smartly dressed people walking towards the viewer from a large Art Deco style yellow train locomotive with a red striped and blue winged logo on the nose at the front, a porter wearing a hat and tie carrying suitcases with the passengers in fashionable dresses and suits walking behind him, a lady in a stylish outfit with hat, gloves and bag in the foreground and fern leaves in the corner above, the stylised handwriting lettering in black reading: For a full measure of travel pleasure... Ride Union Pacific Streamliners Daily between Chicago and Los Angeles Portland San Francisco Denver Coach or Pullman. Issued by Union Pacific Railroad (founded 1862); the company operated streamlined passenger train services from the 1930s-1970s. Good condition, small restored paper loss, restored tear, small light stain, backed on linen.

Country

USA

Year

1949

Style

Advertising Posters

Artist

William Wilmarth

Size (cm)

98x63.5