Sale 2459 - Rare & Important Travel Posters, October 26, 2017

L. VASSER ELAM (1890-1951) 208 c CENTENARY PAGEANT OF THE BALTIMORE AND OHIO RAILROAD. 1927. 41 1 / 4 x27 inches, 104 3 / 4 x68 1 / 2 cm. Acme Litho. Co., New York. Condition B+: tears and slight staining at edges; loss in upper right corner; creases, abrasions and minor losses along vertical and horizontal folds. Paper. “As noted in Railway Age , Baltimore &Ohio commissioned four posters to announce its centenary pageant in 1927. The most effective designs compared the line’s first locomotive, tiny Tom Thumb , to the modern Pacific-class President Washington . . . L. Vasser Elam’s artwork offset colonial buildings with skyscrapers, and proved to be the most dramatic” (Zega p. 83). Zega p. 86. [800/1,200]