Object number:
2007.66.1
Object name:
advertisement
Date made:
1953
Material/Technique:
Offset lithograph on paper
Dimensions:
H: 13.25 in, W: 10.5 in
Credit line:
Museum Purchase
Copyright status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Content description:
I want a ticket on the Atomic Super Chief!" says a spaceman-costumed child to the ticket agent in this Santa Fe Railways advertisement. In the early 1950s, atomic energy was being thought of for many innovative, but impractical, purposes. This 1953 LOOK magazine ad is characteristic of that optimism. PCK
Concepts:
railroad
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