This beautiful reproduction poster has been re-mastered from an original 1930’s advertisement created by commercial artist Charles W. Holmes, for the Boston and Maine Railroad’s service to Lake Winnipesaukee, in New Hampshire. The poster features vacationers enjoying a boating trip in a classic wooden boat of the era.
The vibrant colors and detail of this classic image have been painstakingly brought back to life to preserve a great piece of history.
The high-resolution image is printed on heavy archival photo paper, on a large-format, professional giclée process printer. The poster is shipped in a rigid cardboard tube, and is ready for framing.
The 13"x19" and 24”x36” formats are excellent image sizes that look great as a stand-alone piece of art, or grouped as a visual statement. These posters require no cutting, trimming, or custom framing, and a wide variety of these frames are readily available at your local craft or hobby retailer, and online. The 24"x36" size has a 1" white border.
A great vintage print for your home, shop, or business!
LAKE WINNIPESAUKEE AND THE BOSTON AND MAINE RAILROAD
LAKE WINNIPESAUKEE
Lake Winnipesaukee is the largest lake in the U.S. state of New Hampshire, located in the Lakes Region at the foothills of the White Mountains. It is approximately 21 miles long (northwest-southeast) and from 1 to 9 miles wide (northeast-southwest), covering 69 square miles square miles when Paugus Bay is included, with a maximum depth of 180 feet. The center area of the lake is called The Broads.
The lake contains at least 264 islands, half of which are less than a quarter-acre in size, and is indented by several peninsulas, yielding a total shoreline of approximately 288 miles. The driving distance around the lake is 63 miles. It is 504 feet above sea level. Winnipesaukee is the third-largest lake in New England after Lake Champlain and Moosehead Lake.
Outflow is regulated by the Lakeport Dam in Lakeport, New Hampshire, on the Winnipesaukee River.
THE BOSTON AND MAINE RAILROAD
Boston and Maine Corporation, formerly Boston and Maine Railroad Company, abbreviation B&M, largest of the New England railroads, operating in central and northern Massachusetts, southeastern Maine, and New Hampshire, with a few miles in Vermont and New York. The Boston and Maine’s earliest predecessor was the Andover and Wilmington Railroad, which was chartered in 1833. The railroad’s first section of track, running east from Wilmington, Mass., opened in 1836, and the railroad adopted the name Boston & Portland Railroad in 1839. Another major predecessor, the Boston & Maine Railroad, was incorporated in 1835 and merged with the Boston & Portland in 1841 to form the Boston and Maine Railroad Company.
Ultimately 111 companies were absorbed into the Boston and Maine, which connects New England with other rail lines serving regions to the south and west. The 4.75-mile Hoosac Tunnel, acquired along with the Fitchburg Railroad, was built in 1851–75 through the Berkshire Hills of Massachusetts, occasioning the first use of pneumatic drills in the United States. At the time it was completed in 1875, the Hoosac Tunnel was the longest rock tunnel in the United States.
Although the Boston and Maine Railroad went bankrupt in the 1970s, it continued to operate 1,416 miles of main and branch lines while undergoing reorganization. It derived its largest sources of freight revenue from the transport of paper, petroleum and coal, and food and grain-mill products. The Boston and Maine sold 279 miles of its commuter lines to the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority in the 1970s. In 1984 the railroad was bought by Guilford Transportation Industries, whose owner, Timothy Mellon, was the great-grandson of the financier Andrew Mellon.
