Advertising Poster Empire Builder Wades in the Water

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 with the caption below -Wades in The Water Blackfeet Indian Chief Glacier National Park Montana - with small line illustrations of tepees, horses, mountains and lakes, instruments, people and weapons on the sides. Title text in bold stylised lettering below with a calendar for December 1945. 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, tears, creasing, minor staining, metal bar on top edge, seperate paper attached for the calendar. Country of issue: USA, designer: Winold Reiss, size (cm): 84x40.5, year of printing: 1945