STREAMLINER "CITY OF SAN FRANCISCO" CROSSING GREAT SALT LAKE This sleek streamliner operates on a fast, daily schedule via North Western - Union Pacific - Southern Pacific between Chicago and San Francisco. It is the "last word" in travel comfort, offering coach and all types of sleeping car accommodations, dining cars and lounge cars. – Works

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STREAMLINER "CITY OF SAN FRANCISCO" CROSSING GREAT SALT LAKE This sleek streamliner operates on a fast, daily schedule via North Western - Union Pacific - Southern Pacific between Chicago and San Francisco. It is the "last word" in travel comfort, offering coach and all types of sleeping car accommodations, dining cars and lounge cars.

Printer and Publisher: Curt Teich Co. (American, 1893–1974)

American

1947

Medium/Technique Chromolithograph on linen textured card stock.

Dimensions Horizontal: 8.9 x 14 cm (3 1/2 x 5 1/2 in.)

Credit Line Leonard A. Lauder Postcard Archive—Gift of Leonard A. Lauder

Accession Number2015.6339

NOT ON VIEW

CollectionsAmericas, Prints and Drawings

ClassificationsPostcards

DescriptionBack: divided. Mint.
GENUINE CURTEICH-CHICAGO "C.T. ART-COLORTONE" POST CARD (REG. U.S.PAT.OFF.)
7B-H2057 [in stamp box]

ProvenanceBetween 1950 and 2015, acquired by Leonard A. Lauder, New York, from various postcard dealers in Europe and the United States; 2015, gift of Leonard A. Lauder to the MFA. (Accession Date: September 24, 2015)