Vintage 1944 Pittsburgh Cincinnati Chicago & St. Louis Railroad $1,000 Bond 🚂 Pan Handle Route, Pennsylvania 1910s_cigar_label each pass adding a new

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and modern prints—but all of those trace back to original lithographed labels like this one

1920s French commercial printing

Vintage 1944 Pittsburgh Cincinnati Chicago & St. Louis Railroad $1,000 Bond 🚂 Pan Handle Route, Pennsylvania 1910s_cigar_label each pass adding a newEver wonder what it felt like to hold a piece of the Pennsylvania Railroad's promise to the future? There's a particular kind of American optimism baked into a railroad bond the belief that steel rails, steam power, and the men who kept both running would still be moving freight and passengers three decades down the line. This one promised October 1, 1975. It was printed in the middle of a world war, backed by one of the great trunk lines of the