Paris-Havre-New York / Albert Sébille. – Historic Reproduction
(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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This rare vintage poster captures Paris-Havre-New York / Albert Sébille. in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Paris-Havre-New York / Albert Sébille.
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Albert Sébille's lithograph ties two modes of travel into a single promise: a traveler could leave Paris by train, reach the Atlantic port of Le Havre, and board an ocean liner bound for New York. Printed in Paris by NOVIA sometime between 1920 and 1930, the poster reflects the boom in transatlantic passenger service that followed the First World War, when French shipping lines and the Paris rail network competed for travelers heading to America. Le Havre, a port on the Seine estuary, was the departure point for many of those crossings, and the poster's color and bold composition were typical of the advertising art that railway and steamship companies commissioned to sell the journey as modern and glamorous.
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : lithograph, color ; 100 x 62 cm. |
|---|---|
| Notes | Paris : NOVIA, [between 1920 and 1930] |
| Subjects | Ocean liners--France--Le Havre--1920-1930. Railroads--France--Le Havre--1920-1930. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,158 × 5,036 px · prints to 11 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-226037 |
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