Missouri Pacific Railroad advertisement, Great Overland Rail Route – Vintage Wall Art
(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
Description
Few images capture their era like this historic image of Missouri Pacific Railroad advertisement, Great Overland Rail Route. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.
The framed print arrives ready to hang; the unframed option suits custom framing. A conversation-starting piece for home, office, or as a meaningful gift. Free shipping in the lower 48 states. Since 2001, Snapshots of the Past has shipped historic prints to tens of thousands of customers around the world.
Missouri Pacific Railroad advertisement, Great Overland Rail Route
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The phrase "Great Overland Rail Route" puts this advertisement's emphasis on distance and connection, the selling point of a railroad that carried passengers and freight across the middle of the country. Missouri Pacific grew out of the St. Louis-based lines that pushed west after the Civil War, and its advertising of this kind was aimed at travelers, shippers and prospective settlers. Railroad posters like this one often combined bold lettering with scenes of locomotives or landscapes, showing how companies promoted rail travel as the modern way to cross the continent.
| Original scan | 1,112 × 2,584 px · prints to 4 × 9 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | gowest b |
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