Advertising Poster Empire Builder Sundance Piegan Chief

Original vintage travel calendar advertising poster - Route of the Empire Builder Between Chicago and the Pacific Northwest via Glacier National Park - featuring a native American sitting wearing traditional garments with a feather head dress holding a smoking pipe with the caption below - Sundance - Piegan Chief - Glacier National Park Montana. Title text in bold stylised lettering below with a map of Great Northern Railway and connecting lines. 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. Good condition, creasing, tears, staining, metal bars on top and bottom edge, calendar ripped off from poster Country of issue: USA, designer: Winold Reiss, size (cm): 84x40.5, year of printing: 1942