The Flight of the Fast Mail on the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway
J. A. Burch
Date:
1875
Printer:
Cosack & Co., Buffalo, NY
Publisher / Location:
Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway
Medium:
Chromolithograph on paper
Credit:
Gift of the New York Central Railroad
Accession Number:
1959.130.118
Comments:
From the 1870s and later, railroads devoted less space to text and more to imagery in large-scale printed materials like this poster. Advances in printing technologies, especially lithography, enabled this change.
