![Image features a poster for the New York Subway Advertising Company, encouraging businesses to purchase advertising space in subway stations or on trains. In the foreground, at bottom left, a single train's rail, rendered in perspective extends into a black, spiraling tunnel. At the vanishing point of the tunnel, a cluster of colorful, overlapping rectangles, meant to represent posters. Across the bottom, in black text: [New York Subway Advertising Company logo] RAILS TO SALES / SUBWAY POSTERS [a red line cuts through the center of "subway posters"]. Please scroll down to read the blog post about this object.](https://www.cooperhewitt.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/CHSDM-292880_01-000001-scaled.jpg)
Featured Image: Poster, Rails to Sales, Subway Posters, ca. 1947; Designed by Otis Shepard (American, 1894–1969) and collaborator Dorothy Van Gorder (American, 1906–2000); lithograph on paper, lined; 89.5 × 75.2 cm (35 1/4 × 29 5/8 in.); Gift of Merrill C. Berman; 2018-39-4
