ANTIQUE 1900 LACKAWANNA RAILROAD ADVERTISING BLOTTER

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This is a very fine VINTAGE 1900 Antique Advertising Blotter from the

LACKAWANNA RAILROAD

PROMOTING THEIR NEW LOGO " THEY DO THINGS RIGHT UPON THE ROAD OF ANTHRACITE "

SHOWS A VICTORIAN LADY WHO I BELIEVE IS PHOEBE SNOW DRESSED IN WHITE AND HER PERSONAL BLACK PORTER

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NEAR MINT CONDITION UNUSED CONDITION WITH BLUE BACK SIDE, ONE HUNDRED PER CENT COMPLETE--NO RIPS, TEARS, BENDS, OR CREASES

FOUND IN AN OLD BOOK WHERE IT HAD BEEN FOR OVER 100 YEARS

MEASURES 3" X 5 1/2"

Rail travel around the year 1900 was a messy business. After a long trip on a coal-powered train, travelers would frequently emerge covered in black soot. The exceptions to that rule were locomotives powered by anthracite, a clean-burning form of coal. The Lackawanna owned vast anthracite mines in Pennsylvania, and could legitimately claim that their passengers’ clothes would still look clean after a long trip. To promote this fact, their advertising department created Phoebe Snow, a young New York socialite, and a frequent passenger of the Lackawanna. For reasons never explained, Miss Snow often traveled to Buffalo, New York, always wearing a white dress. The first ad featured the image of Phoebe and a short poem: ‘Says Phoebe Snow about to go upon a trip to Buffalo: My gown stays white from morn till night / Upon the Road of Anthracite’ The campaign became a popular one,

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