C & B Line--Cleveland, Buffalo and Toledo / R.B. Lawrence. – Vintage Wall Art
![C & B Line--Cleveland, Buffalo and Toledo / R.B. Lawrence., [between 1890 and 1910] — antique lithograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/d0/d07b978aee29-L.webp)
(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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A window into the past: C & B Line--Cleveland, Buffalo and Toledo / R.B. Lawrence., preserved in this antique lithograph. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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C & B Line--Cleveland, Buffalo and Toledo / R.B. Lawrence.
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The title names the route itself, Cleveland, Buffalo and Toledo, which sets this piece apart from other steamboat images. The C & B Line carried passengers and freight across Lake Erie between these lakeshore cities, and in the years before automobiles and widespread highway travel, a lake steamer was a popular way to make an excursion. This color lithograph by R.B. Lawrence belongs to the advertising that filled timetables and travel pamphlets of the 1890s and 1900s, when chromolithography offered bright, detailed color at a modest cost. Pictures like this one show how steamship companies sold the lake as a holiday destination as well as a practical route.
| Created / published | [between 1890 and 1910] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : chromolithograph. |
| Genre | Pamphlets 1890-1910.Chromolithographs Color 1890-1910. |
| Notes | In collection: Illustrated time tables and travel pamphlets. |
| Subjects | Steamboats--Erie, Lake--1890-1910. Tourism--Erie, Lake--1890-1910. Travel--Erie, Lake--1890-1910. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,158 × 1,490 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-218099 |
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