harpers1900june23

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Source/Date: Harper's Weekly, June 23, 1900

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Creator: Unknown

Remarks: By the 1890s middle class eastern magazines began to feature railroad advertisements for vacations in the Adirondacks, the South, and the Rockies. This image is remarkable for its use of humor, which, except for Phoebe Snow, was rare in railroad commercial art.

Keywords: Northern Pacific Railroad