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AS THE "CENTURIES" PASS IN THE NIGHT

Creator(s): William Harnden Foster (Painter)

Currently in storage


About this object

Print shows two trains. The locomotive of one is seen on the left, and the caboose of the other is seen to the right. The locomotive has its headlight on, and smoke billows from the smokestack. The caboose is lit from within and the figure of a man can be seen on the outside platform, as he leans towards the locamotive. This train curves off to the right of the print. The tracks for both trains are seen in the bottom of the print. On the left side of the print can be seen a distant landscape with water and a few buildings.

Object name:
AS THE "CENTURIES" PASS IN THE NIGHT
Made from:
Paper
Made in:
USA
Date made:
1923
Size:
49.5 × 61.6 cm (19 1/2 × 24 1/4 in.)

Detailed information for this item

Catalog number:
55.63
Class:
PRINT
Signature marks:
SIGNATURE; DATE; INSCRIPTION lower right: William Hamden Foster 1923; lower left: c 1923 New York Central R.R. Co.; inscribed: As the "Centuries" pass in the night The Twentieth Century Limited of the New York Central Lines
Credit line:
Gift of General Foods, 1978