Holland, Harwich-Hook service / Austin Cooper. – Vintage Print
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Step back in time with Holland, Harwich-Hook service / Austin Cooper., a vintage poster rich in period detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Holland, Harwich-Hook service / Austin Cooper.
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This poster advertises the Harwich-Hook service, the steamer route that carried travelers between Harwich in England and the Hook of Holland, and it pairs Dutch clothing with a windmill to signal the destination. The London & North Eastern Railway, formed in 1923 from a merger of several companies, used posters like this to draw holidaymakers to the Continent. Austin Cooper's color lithograph relies on regional dress and windmills as shorthand for the Netherlands, a motif railway advertisers leaned on through the 1920s. Its tall format suited display on station platforms and in booking offices.
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : lithograph, color ; 99 x 61 cm. |
|---|---|
| Notes | London : London & North Eastern Railway, [between 1920 and 1930] |
| Subjects | Dutch--Clothing & dress--1920-1930. Windmills--Netherlands--1920-1930. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,902 × 6,106 px · prints to 16 × 20 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-226040 |
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