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The twenty-five posters in the exhibition have been divided
into the above six categories. Please click the links to see
the illustrations. All posters are approximately 40 x 25 inches.
Southern Railway
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Anonymous
For Holidays I always go Southern
London, Dunstable & Watford: Waterlow & Sons Limited
Not dated, but not before 1925
The original photograph on which this poster is based was taken
in 1924 by the father of Ronald Witt, the child gazing raptly
up at the engineer, and the earliest poster use was in 1925;
but the image was used repeatedly in various guises for a dozen
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T. D. Kerr
Electrification! (Progress Posters No. 1)
London, Dunstable & Watford: Waterlow & Sons Ltd.
1925
This and the following three posters made up the Southern Railway's
first poster series.
Cole and Durack, p. 64 |
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T. D. Kerr
Steam! (Progress Posters No. 2)
London: McCorquodale & Co., Limited
1925
Cole and Durack, p. 64 |

T. D. Kerr
The Viaduct (Progress Posters No. 3)
London, Dunstable & Watford: Waterlow & Sons Ltd.
1925
The illustration depicts the Ouse Viaduct, on the route between
London and Brighton.
Cole and Durack, p. 65 |
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T. D. Kerr
Rolling-stock (Progress Posters No. 4)
London: McCorquodale & Co., Limited
1925 |

Anonymous
The New 'Bournemouth Limited'
[London] Sanders Phillips and Co., Ltd., The Baynard Press
[1929]
Hillman and Cole, p. 12 |
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