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Hong Kong - Northwest Airlines Orient Express (circa 1950)

Unknown photographer

Offset Lithograph
64cm x 101cm
circa 1950
Grade: A/A-, Fine. Linenbacked. Restored tear at top right corner, with no loss.
T4398

This is probably the first photo based travel poster to Hong Kong, with a street scene looking up D'Aguilar Street into the area that is today the Lan Kwai Fong bar and restaurant district.


A very scarce poster, only two other examples have passed through Picture This Gallery.

 

Ref: Bailey  -  101 Hong Kong Travel Posters, p.10

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