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Auction History Result 7e148 ROUTE OF THE EMPIRE BUILDER linen 16x25 railroad poster '30s Native American art by Reiss! Date Sold 3/5/2013 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. A Linenbacked Railroad Train Route Poster (measures 15 3/4" x 24 1/2" [40 x 62 cm]) (Learn More) Route of the Empire Builder, the 1930s Brown & Bigelow wall calendar produced by the Great Northern Railway to promote the Empire Builder passenger train which travels from Chicago to Portland. This calendar features art of Native American Indian Chief Mike Little Dog in ceremonial dress by Winold Reiss. If anyone knows more about this item, please e-mail us and we will post it here. NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Artist: Winold Reiss Important Added Info: Note that this poster was originally a Brown & Bigelow calendar that had a bottom section which had a black & white map of the routes that the Great Northern Railroad went across, and it had a calendar attached over that area. This particular area has had that bottom area trimmed off and it now measures 15 3/4" x 24 1/2" [40 x 62 cm]. What IS linenbacking? Learn More Overall Condition and Pre-Restoration Defects with Quality of Restoration: very good. The calendar portion of the poster was trimmed off . Otherwise, the poster had some scuffs and faint smudges around the edges. Overall, the poster was in very good condition prior to linenbacking. The poster was nicely backed, and displays well! Learn More about condition grades 
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