Rare & Important Travel Posters — Featuring Highlights from the Victor Ryerson Collection: November 10, 2022 Auction Highlights

^{Lot 66: Tom Purvis, East Coast Joys / Travel By L.N.E.R, set of 6 posters, 1931. Estimate $20,000 to $30,000.}

An unparalleled collection of American railway posters assembled by Victor Ryerson includes rare examples from the late nineteenth century, exceptional streamliner imagery from the 1920s and ‘30s, and 18 posters by Maurice Logan. On offer will be scarce and wonderful images from the Southern Pacific, Northern Pacific, Santa Fe, and other railroad companies.

Railways

^{At Auction November 10: left to right: Lot 133: Sam Hyde Harris, Southern Pacific’s New Daylight, gouache maquette, 1937. Estimate $7,000 to $10,000; Lot 69: Alfred Reginald Thomson, LNER / Take Me By the Flying Scotsman, circa 1936. Estimate $15,000 to $20,000; Lot 178: Leslie Ragan, The New 20th Century Limited, 1939. Estimate $10,000 to $15,000.}

Ocean Liners

^{At Auction November 10: left: Lot 83: Maurice Logan, To the Far East / Canadian Pacific / White Empress Route, 1936. Estimate $2,000 to $3,000; right: Lot 84: Montague Birrell Black, French Line C.G.T / Normandie, circa 1938. Estimate $5,000 to $7,500.}

International Travel

Additionally, the auction will feature posters touting exotic destinations from the beaches of the French Riviera and the work of Roger Broders (Antibes, circa 1928, L’Été sur La Cote d’Azur, 1930, and La Route des Alpes, circa 1920), to the steppes of Siberia (P. Merinov, The Transsiberian Express, 1930), and to the glories of the Mughal emperors of India (Agra, Taj Mahal). Other highlights include Frank Newbould’s seldom-seen 1925 poster advertising travel on the LNER to Berlin, Maurice Lauro’s 1928 Art Deco gem for Trouville on the Normandy coast, and impressive classics such as Leslie Ragan’s 1939 New 20th Century Limited, John Held Jr.’s 1925 Nantucket, and David Klein’s psychedelic masterpiece New York Fly TWA.