Advertising Art, Brooklyn Botanic Garden, Subway Poster, Prospect Park, Antique Print, c. 1923-39
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H.E.H. (after) Visit Brooklyn’s Beautiful Botanic Garden American: c. 1923-1939 Color lithograph poster on card stock 21 x 21 inches $1,250 Subway poster advertising the BMT Lines rapid transit to Prospect Park Station featuring a boldly colored illustration of the Lily Pool at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden in shades of pink, green, purple, orange, yellow and blue. The text reads: “Visit .. Brooklyn’s Beautiful Botanic Garden/ Prospect Park Station/ To and from the Business & Shopping Centers of Brooklyn, Manhattan & Queens …. use BMT Lines.” The poster is undated but the BMT Lines (Brooklyn-Manhattan Transit Corporation) was founded in 1923 and sold its transit operations to New York City in 1940, when Mayor LaGuardia consolidated privately-owned transit lines under municipal ownership and management. The illustration is signed in the matrix lower left H.E.H. Poster apparently quite rare. Product description continues below.
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