Tourists! Great Northern Pleasure Route handbill, Boston to Montreal – Vintage Print
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A window into the past: Tourists! Great Northern Pleasure Route handbill, Boston to Montreal, preserved in this historic image. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.
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Tourists! Great Northern Pleasure Route handbill, Boston to Montreal
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The headline "Tourists!" leads this handbill, which sold a Boston-to-Montreal trip as a Great Northern Pleasure Route, presenting the rail journey itself as the attraction. Handbills like this were a common tool of late nineteenth-century railroads, which competed for summer travelers by promoting mountain scenery, lakes, and resort hotels. Because the route was framed as a pleasure outing rather than simple transportation, the scenery along the way mattered as much as the destination. The direct, exclamatory tone is worth noticing, since it reflects how these printed pieces tried to grab a passerby's attention.
| Original scan | 1,620 × 3,485 px · prints to 5 × 12 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | tourists! |
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