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Five Rare Books for Collectors: Vintage Posters

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Teamwork Builds Ships, color lithograph poster by William Dodge Stevens

Highlights of Potter & Potter Auctions' fall Vintage Poster sale include:

Fly to Britain by Clipper / Pan American World Airways

Mark Von Arnburg's 1948 lithograph depicting the Queen’s guard and royal carriage drawn by a team of horses, escorted by soldiers in red, men on horseback with Big Ben and the Houses of Parliament in the background.

Yellowstone Park / Northern Pacific

Offset lithograph rail travel poster by Thomas Moran (1837–1926) showing the Moran landscape painting Grand Canyon of Yellowstone Park. Northern Pacific was the first rail line to reach Yellowstone National Park at the north entrance in 1883. St. Paul: Brown & Bigelow, ca.

Teamwork Builds Ships

Color lithograph poster by William Dodge Stevens (1870–1942) depicting three riveters working on the hull of a troopship. Circa 1918. Boston: Forbes.

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Yellowstone Park / Northern Pacific

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Burlington Route / Chicago

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Fly to Britain by Clipper / Pan American World Airways

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Chicago / New York Central Lines

Burlington Route / Chicago

Color lithograph poster depicting the Grand Passenger Depot at Chicago, bustling with multiple forms of transportation including trains, horse-drawn carriages, and a shipyard in the background. Burlington & Quincy Railroad. Chicago: J.M.W. Jones S & P Co., copyright Callahan & Co, ca. 1880s.

Chicago / New York Central Lines

The first poster that Leslie Ragan (1897 – 1972) produced for New York Central Lines (1929. Brooklyn: Latham Litho & Ptg. Co). A woman strolls in Grant Park, the Edward H. Bennett-designed classical peristyle behind her, and towering buildings of Michigan Avenue and clouds in the background.