Hull, Britains Cheapest Port, Yorkshire. Vintage LNER Travel poster by H G Gawthorn. 1929

Product code: S-823

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This poster was produced in 1929 for London & North Eastern Railway (LNER) to promote commercial freight services in Hull, Yorkshire. The poster shows an aerial view of the port at Hull which directly served the industrial area of 13,000,000 people at that time. Artwork by Henry George Gawthorn (1879-1941), who started out as an architect but later turned to pictorial art. He wrote several books on poster design and publicity and also produced many posters for LNER.

This is truly an outstanding quality poster. It is printed on Fuji crystal archive photographic paper and is by no means a flimsy poster.

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