Advertising Poster Empire Builder Evening Star Woman

Original vintage travel calendar advertising poster - Route of Great Streamliners Empire Builder Western Star between Chicago and Seattle - Portland - featuring a young native American woman wearing traditional dress with the caption below - Evening Star Woman Blackfeet Indian Princess Glacier National Park in Montana - alongside traditional mosaic style pattern in the borders. Calendar below showing November 1954 above the Great Northern Railway logo and an image of The New Empire Builder train, an orange and black streamline locomotive travelling at speed on tracks in front of a snow topped mountain landscape. Beneath the calendar is story about the Evening Star Woman. 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, paper losses, staining, creasing, tears, metal bars on top edge, seperate paper attached in top left corner and for the calendar. Country of issue: USA, designer: Winold Reiss, size (cm): 83x41, year of printing: 1954