These are simply the best posters available! You will be thrilled with the image quality, vivid colors, fine paper, and unique subjects. 
 
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This beautiful reproduction poster created by commercial artist Ben Nason has been re-mastered from an original 1942 advertising poster for the New Haven Railroad’s service to Nantucket. The image features a classic New England, colonial-style building on a shoreline with sailboats in the distance.
 
The vibrant colors and detail of this classic image have been painstakingly brought back to life to preserve a great piece of history.
 
The high-resolution image is printed on heavy archival photo paper, on a large-format, professional giclée process printer. The poster is shipped in a rigid cardboard tube, and is ready for framing.
 
The 13"x19" and 24”x36” formats are excellent image sizes that look great as a stand-alone piece of art, or as a grouped visual statement. These posters require no cutting, trimming, or custom framing, and a wide variety of these frames are readily available at your local craft or hobby retailer, and online. The 24”x36” size has a 1” white border.
 
A great vintage print for your home, cabin, shop, or business!
 
HISTORY OF NANTUCKET AND THE NEW HAVEN RAILROAD
 
NANTUCKET
 
Nantucket is an island in Massachusetts, United States, about 30 miles south of the Cape Cod peninsula. Together with the small islands of Tuckernuck and Muskeget, it constitutes the Town and County of Nantucket, a combined county/town government. Nantucket is the southeasternmost town in both Massachusetts and the New England region. The name "Nantucket" is adapted from similar Algonquian names for the island.
 
Nantucket's history is marked by its pre-European Wampanoag inhabitants, a 1659 European settlement, and its rise as the global whaling capital between the late 18th and mid-19th centuries. The lucrative whaling industry profoundly shaped the island's economy and identity, which later declined with the discovery of petroleum, the American Civil War, and navigational challenges.
 
Today, Nantucket is a tourist destination and summer colony. Due to tourists and seasonal residents, the population of the island increases to around 80,000 during the summer months.
 
THE NEW HAVEN RAILROAD
 
The New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad (reporting mark NH), commonly known as The Consolidated, or simply as the New Haven, was a railroad that operated in the New England region of the United States from 1872 to December 31, 1968. Founded by the merger of the New York and New Haven and Hartford and New Haven railroads, the company had near-total dominance of railroad traffic in Southern New England for the first half of the 20th century.
 
Beginning in the 1890s and accelerating in 1903, New York banker J. P. Morgan sought to monopolize New England transportation by arranging the NH's acquisition of 50 companies, including other railroads and steamship lines, and building a network of electrified trolley lines that provided interurban transportation for all of southern New England. By 1912, the New Haven operated more than 2,000 miles of track, with 120,000 employees, and practically monopolized traffic in a wide swath from Boston to New York City.
 
Fueled by its quest to monopolize railroads in the Northeast, the company's debt soared from $14 million in 1903 to $242 million in 1913. In 1913, the federal government filed an antitrust lawsuit that forced the NH to divest its trolley systems.
The line went bankrupt in 1935. It emerged from bankruptcy, albeit reduced in scope, in 1947, only to go bankrupt again in 1961. In 1969, its rail assets were merged with the Penn Central system, formed a year earlier by the merger of the New York Central Railroad and Pennsylvania Railroad. Penn Central proceeded to go bankrupt in 1970.
 
The remnants of the system now comprise Metro-North Railroad's New Haven Line, much of the northern leg of Amtrak's Northeast Corridor, Connecticut's Shore Line East and Hartford Line, parts of the MBTA, and numerous freight operators such as CSX and the Providence and Worcester Railroad. The majority of the system is now owned publicly by the states of Connecticut, Rhode Island, and Massachusetts.