Lehigh Valley Railroad. Route of the Black Diamond Express. Dreams of Travel – Antique 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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Lehigh Valley Railroad. Route of the Black Diamond Express. Dreams of Travel comes to life in this antique engraving, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Lehigh Valley Railroad. Route of the Black Diamond Express. Dreams of Travel
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The Lehigh Valley Railroad's Black Diamond Express is the subject here, an engraved advertisement that presents a named passenger train as a promise of travel. The railroad took its nickname from the anthracite coal of eastern Pennsylvania, which it hauled in large volumes, so the name links the passenger service to the freight business that built the line. The print was engraved and printed by John A. Lowell & Co. of Boston and dates to about 1900, a period when railroads competed hard for travelers and used lavish pictorial advertising to do it.
| Medium | 1 print : engraving. |
|---|---|
| Notes | c1900. |
| Subjects | Engraved and printed by John A. Lowell & Co., Boston. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: RR--Advertisements; Shelf. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,211 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-128034 |
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