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The World's Railroad Scene, c. 1882 by Swain & Lewis
Size:12x9"
Frame Style:Standard 0.75"
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Size:12x9"
Frame Style:Standard 0.75"
Size:12x9"
Frame Style:Standard 0.75"
The World's Railroad Scene, by Swain & Lewis captures a bustling Illinois Central Railroad station in 1882, where fashionably dressed travelers gather trackside as a steam locomotive rolls in beneath a great globe mapping the line's reach across America. Swain & Lewis were a Chicago design and lithography firm active in the late nineteenth century, credited as designer and lithographer on this elaborate chromolithographic advertising print commissioned for the Illinois Central Railroad.
Artist: Swain & Lewis. Date: 1882.
The World's Railroad Scene. Historic American Railroad Advertising Chromolithograph Canvas Print.