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Life and Times of the
Central Pacific Railroad
Keepsake Series, The Book Club of California, 1969


POSTER:  Australia, China and Japan

POSTER:  Australia, China and JapanPrinted by the Sacramento firm of H.S. Crocker, one of the brothers of Charles Crocker, this poster, published shortly after the completion of the first transcontinental railroad, offered merchant princes a new route linking the Orient with Europe.  Forming the first "land bridge" across the United States, passengers boarding the Silver Palace Sleeping Cars were whisked from San Francisco Bay to New York City in just six days and 20 hours.
 

Born in Massachusetts, Alban Nelson Towne came to the Central Pacific in September 1869, from the Burlington Railroad to begin his career with the C.P.R.R., first as General Superintendent and then as General Manager of the successor Southern Pacific Company (Pacific System).  Moving with the Central Pacific from Sacramento to San Francisco in 1873, he eventually built a fine residence at 1101 California Street (Nob Hill).  Though his mansion was consumed by the fire of 1906, a physical memory still exists in the form of six Ionic columns which now stand by Lloyd Lake in Golden Gate Park and, with a touch of nostalgia, are called "The Portals of the Past."
 

This is Number Four of twelve Keepsakes issued during 1969 to its members by The Book Club of California in commemoration of the centennial of the transcontinental railroad. The series has been edited by David F. Myrick and designed and printed by Lawton and Alfred Kennedy.

 

 

POSTER:  Australia, China and Japan

Courtesy The Book Club of California.



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