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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;2manycats, post: 9557706, member: 13761&quot;]I think what you&#039;ve got here is photographically printed images cut out and glued to a lithographically printed background, almost certainly from 1875. A modern repro would be flat, without the glued-on images, much cheaper to produce. In 1875, there were lots of interesting changes in image-making, and lots of experiments in production. The photographic printing would have been easier in some ways than making a lithograph, though the materials were expensive, so by using cheap labor (women or children) to cut up and paste smaller expensive images onto the larger, cheaper background, you get a big deluxe picture, showcasing both the railroad and the printer&#039;s excellence.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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