See this Trunk? Yours can be checked New York to London, etc., via the London & North Western Railway – Vintage Wall Art
(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 See this Trunk? Yours can be checked New York to London, etc., via the London & North Western Railway in remarkable 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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See this Trunk? Yours can be checked New York to London, etc., via the London & North Western Railway
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A color poster from 1894, printed in New York by the Winchell Printing Co., promises that a traveler's trunk can be checked from New York to London, with the London & North Western Railway handling the rail portion. The company was one of Britain's largest railways, running main lines from London's Euston station to Liverpool and the northwest, so an Atlantic steamship to Liverpool would have been the natural link in such a trip. Through-checking of baggage spared passengers from handling heavy trunks at each port and station. The record's details come from an old caption card and have not been verified, so the poster is best read as period advertising.
| Created / published | New York : Winchell Printing Co., 1894. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : color ; 37 x 29 cm. |
| Notes | This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 2,448 × 3,144 px · prints to 8 × 10 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-172676 |
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