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New photography by Pat Cagney captured with a digital camera.
Old Dominion Steamship Advertising Poster
New photography by Pat Cagney captured with a digital camera.
New photography by Pat Cagney captured with a digital camera.

Old Dominion Steamship Advertising Poster

Publisher Parsons and Atwater
Publisher Charles Hart Print.
CultureAmerican
Dateca. 1872-80
MediumChromolithograph
DimensionsOverall: 15 7/8 x 23 7/8 in. (40.3 x 60.6 cm)
Overall, Mat: 28 x 34 in. (71.1 x 86.4 cm)
Inscribed"Parsons and Atwater Del. & Lith. N.Y."; "Charles Hart Print. N.Y."
Credit LineThe Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, VA
Object number45.12.19
Not on view
DescriptionColored lithograph; advertisement or calendar. Shows black-hulled, tan and white superstructure side-wheeler with U.S.M. on hub of wheel casing, booms for sails on both masts, one smoke stack, three flags --- U.S. at stern (31 stars), white with red letters U.S. M. from aft mast and white with red letters O.D. from forward mast.

Label TextParsons and Atwater, New York (Lithographers) Old Dominion Steamship Advertising Poster, ca. 1872-80 Chromolithograph Collection Chrysler Museum of Art 45.12.19