Martha's Vineyard The New Haven Railroad, Original Rail Travel Poster
- ca 1940s
- Ben Nason (1915 - ?)
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28 x 42 inches ~ (71 x 106 cm)$2,870
- Linen backed
Linen backing is the industry standard of conservation. Canvas is stretchered and a sheet of acid free barrier paper is laid down. The poster is then pasted to the acid free paper using an acid free paste. This process is fully reversible and gives support to the poster. A border of linen is left around the poster and can be used by a framer to mount the poster so that nothing touches the poster itself.
The price of this poster includes linen backing.
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The figurehead on the front of a sailing ship glides past the seaside villages or Martha's Vineyard with a lighthouse rising atop a hill in the background.
From the New Haven Railroad Historical and Technical Association) "The New Haven was an extremely passenger oriented railroad and a great proportion of its revenues came from New England vacation travel. An important element of the New Haven's postwar vacation travel marketing campaign was a series of seven travel posters, each about 27 by 42 inches in size, which promoted popular vacation destinations directly served by New Haven Railroad passenger trains. Designed with a somewhat stylized family resemblance by an artist named Ben Nason and executed in bright colors using an airbrush technique, these travel posters were printed (perhaps at first) starting about 1941.
Distribution was curtailed during the Second World War, when all non-essential travel was actively discouraged by the railroad. However, the Nason posters were widely distributed to stations, ticket offices, travel agencies, and other interested parties (such as stores) starting in late 1945. [They] remained in service (although perhaps in limited numbers towards the end) up through at least the middle of 1955."We have other posters from this series that included The Berkshires, Boston, Cape Cod, Connecticut, Martha's Vineyard, and Rhode Island.
