Advertisement for Budd Manufacturing, who produced many of the cars for the streamlined trains, beginning in the 1930s. The ad depicts the Empire State Express, a streamlined train of the New York Central Railroad. The ad appeared in the December 14, 1944 edition of Saturday Evening Post. Did not crop the magazine name and date from top of the page for verification purposes.
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14 December 1944-date the magazine was on sale to the public.
There are no copyright marks on the full page of the ad, as can be seen at the link above. The pages are clearly marked as advertisements, so they are not a part of any Saturday Evening Post copyrights.
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