1957 Calendar advertising Pennsylvania Railraod

calendar

EPHEMERA
Cuneo Eastern Press, Inc.; Teller, Griffith Harold
USA, PA, Philadelphia
1956
paper
28-1/2 x 28-3/4 in.

1957 Calendar advertising Pennsylvania Railroad, "Vital Links to World Trade"; color illustration from painting by Griffith Harold Teller (1899-1993) showing ore dock and unloading facilities at Pier 122, South Philadelphia, PA, Milepost 7; illustrates the mid-20th century state of inter-model cargo in the United States on the eve of the containerization revolution; metal rim top and bottom of paper; painting signed lower right "GRIF TELLER/ ©PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD 1956"; 3-month pages stapled at bottom, current month in middle with previous and next left and right, from November 1956 through January 1958; printed on sheet under last 3-month page are year calendars 1956-1958, and "COPYRIGHT BY THE PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD, 1956", and " PICTURE FROM THE PAINTING BY GRIF TELLER", and "CUNEO EASTERN PRESS, INC. PRINTED IN U.S.A."


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