Lot 298: BEN NASON BOSTON.

42x28 inches. Condition B: restored losses and repaired tears in margins; creases in margins and image; vertical and horizontal folds. Familiar historical sites in Boston pictured by day and by night in red, blue, orange and yellow. One in a series of seven posters issued by the New Haven Railroad after the Second World War promoting New England vacation travel. "During World War Two, heavy military traffic demands forced the New Haven to actively discourage civilians from riding its trains for non-essential purposes. Once the war ended, however, the New Haven railroad set out to recapture the New England vacation travel business with large scale purchases of new passenger equipment and an unprecedented mass marketing campaign" (www.nhrta.org/htdocs/images1199.htm).