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Vintage Railroad Travel Poster
The image is a vintage travel poster for the New Haven Railroad titled "Northward". Created by the American illustrator and cartoonist John Held Jr. around the mid-to-late 1920s or circa 1930, the poster promoted train travel to vacation destinations in New England and Canada.
Poster Details
Artist: John Held Jr. (1889-1958), a celebrated illustrator known for his work in The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, and other magazines, whose style defined the Jazz Age and the "flapper" era.
Railroad: The New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad, a major transportation link in southern New England from the late 19th to mid-20th century.
Style: The poster features Held's signature Art Deco cartoon style, with vibrant colors and energetic, elongated figures.
Imagery: It humorously depicts a crowd of stylish city folk, including men in boater hats and women carrying luggage and golf clubs, all eagerly scrambling toward a train. Above them, a flock of geese and ducks mirrors their migration northward, cleverly suggesting that a summer getaway is an instinctive choice.
The poster encourages travel by train to "Vacation Land" in New England and Canada.
John Held was renowned for his illustrations that defined the cultural shift and "Jazz Age" of the 1920s.
The New Haven Railroad was a primary transportation provider in New England during that era, reaching its operational peak around 1929.
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The image is a vintage travel poster for the New Haven Railroad titled "Northward". Created by the American illustrator and cartoonist John Held Jr. around the mid-to-late 1920s or circa 1930, the poster promoted train travel to vacation destinations in New England and Canada.
Poster Details
Artist: John Held Jr. (1889-1958), a celebrated illustrator known for his work in The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, and other magazines, whose style defined the Jazz Age and the "flapper" era.
Railroad: The New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad, a major transportation link in southern New England from the late 19th to mid-20th century.
Style: The poster features Held's signature Art Deco cartoon style, with vibrant colors and energetic, elongated figures.
Imagery: It humorously depicts a crowd of stylish city folk, including men in boater hats and women carrying luggage and golf clubs, all eagerly scrambling toward a train. Above them, a flock of geese and ducks mirrors their migration northward, cleverly suggesting that a summer getaway is an instinctive choice.
The poster encourages travel by train to "Vacation Land" in New England and Canada.
John Held was renowned for his illustrations that defined the cultural shift and "Jazz Age" of the 1920s.
The New Haven Railroad was a primary transportation provider in New England during that era, reaching its operational peak around 1929.
