Advertising Poster Empire Builder Bull Head Great

Original vintage travel advertising poster - Route of the Streamlined Empire Builder - featuring an old native American wearing traditional dress and feathers in his hair with the caption below - Bull Head Blackfeet Medicine Man Glacier National Park Montana - Artwork by the German-American portrait artist and graphic designer Winold Reiss (1886-1953) who painted Native American tribal members on the Blackfeet Reservation from 1920. Launched in 1929, The Empire Builder was the flagship passenger train of the Great Northern Railway (1889-1970), originally operating a steam powered service that was re-equipped in 1947 to a streamliner service; it was relaunched in 1971 when it was taken over by Amtrak and now runs daily intercity services between Chicago and Seattle and Portland. Fair condition, tears, staining, paper losses, creasing, trimmed. Country of issue: USA, designer: Winold Reiss, size (cm): 60x34, year of printing: 1938