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Union Pacific Streamliner "City of Denver" Poster
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An original color lithograph promoting the Union Pacific Railway Streamliner, and the "City of Denver." In the artist's depiction, a yellow Union Pacific passenger train approaches the foreground at an angle, with the attached passenger cars appearing smaller in the distance, with a bridge on the right. In the far background is a rural setting, with fields and a farmhouse.
1930
Union Pacific Railway Company
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W014D3C
WHi 68355
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