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If Bern Hill did 46 paintings for General Motors before the end of 1952, why did GM only print posters for 31 of them? Greg Palumbo suggests that “the posters were limited to customers who were either going to or … Continue reading
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I’ve shown these posters before, but I’m including them here because some of them are in higher resolutions than the ones I’ve shown before and the others are for the sake of having a complete set available on line in … Continue reading
Here are the rest of the Bern Hill posters that I haven’t shown in a previous post. This image is from the Palumbo collection. Click image to download a 6.2-MB PDF of this poster. Greg Palumbo’s image of this poster … Continue reading
All of the poster images in yesterday’s post were from Greg Palumbo’s collection, but none of today’s are. Instead, I’ve used the highest-resolution images I could find for each poster. I’ve placed them all in consistently-sized PDFs, but in most … Continue reading
Counting the Southern Railway cover from February 11, 1950 and the 1952 Christmas cover, Bern Hill did 46 paintings that appeared on Railway Age magazine covers in 1950, 1951, and 1952. Near the end of this period, General Motors printed … 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
In 2013, I did a series of three posts (one, two, and three) on Bern Hill, an artist who made dozens of memorable paintings used by General Motors on the covers of Railway Age magazine. Perhaps the greatest living expert … Continue reading
Paul Proehl, who did the cover art for yesterday’s 1931 booklet about Chicago and a 1926 booklet about the Mississippi Gulf Coast, also did a number of posters for the Illinois Central. Not coincidentally, all of the posters I’ve found … Continue reading
Canadian Pacific’s tourist class was supposed to be a cut above third class but not quite as good as second class. Normally third class consisted of shared rooms with 8 to 12 beds. CP’s tourist-class rooms had just two to … Continue reading
After World War II, Canadian Pacific resumed its West Indies and Mediterranean cruises from New York but not its world or South America-Africa cruises. The earliest cruises documents in the Chung collection are from 1953, but it seems likely that … Continue reading