With seventeen paintings in one year, many were closely scheduled. Yesterday I noted that Hill had three in the month of August, while today’s first painting is from a Railway Age dated just one week after the last of yesterday’s … Continue reading
It is worth noting that, not only did Railway Age allow GM to extend its ads behind the magazine’s masthead, it apparently allowed Bern Hill to select the colors of that masthead. The colors not only made the lettering visible, … Continue reading
General Motors had 18 Railway Age cover ads in 1951, 17 of which appear to have been done by Hill. The eighteenth cover featured a photograph purporting to show the construction of the 10,000th Diesel locomotive manufactured by General Motors. … Continue reading
For the last four months of 1950, Hill’s Railway Age covers came at a pace of one per month, plus a special Christmas cover on December 23. A Chicago & North Western 400 train crosses the Mississippi River in this … Continue reading
Bernard Hill was born in Toronto in 1911. After studying art in Toronto and London, England, Hill worked for a variety of printing and advertising companies. In 1940, he moved to New York where he soon went to work for … Continue reading
In 1950, General Motors stunned the advertising world by issuing a series of Railway Age cover ads that portrayed trains as simply part of the landscape, not a dominant feature. The gritty railroad world of cinders, smoke, grease, and gravel … Continue reading
I’ve presented this souvenir of the 1969 Golden Spike Centennial before, but at the time I was unable to make decent reproductions of the locomotive portraits contained inside. Also, I recently learned that the original folio contained four locomotive portraits … Continue reading
Here are more Northern Pacific poster stamps, labeled series 5. If series 1 and 2 were issued in 1915 and series 3 and 4 in 1916, then this series may have been issued in 1917. I’ve found a series 6 … Continue reading
In the early 1900s, perhaps coinciding with the postcard craze, Cinderella stamps, which looked like postage stamps but couldn’t be used as postage, became popular, with people using them to decorate letters, envelopes, and postcards mailed to friends and relatives. … Continue reading
Here are ten “memograms” by Florence DeMuth, the resident artist aboard many of Canadian Pacific’s cruises in the late 1920s and 1930s. The drawings include scenes of Gibraltar, Naples, Venice, Greece, the Nile, Palestine, Zanzibar, South Africa, Buenos Aires, and … Continue reading
