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Visitez I' URSS (Visit the USSR) [Anniversary Tours]

Brugière, Théo (Photography)

Paris: Wagons-Lits, (1927). Original document. Loose leaf. Folded Broadside (14 1/1 x 16 3/4"). Four-fold original travel advertising broadside illustrated with photo-montage in sepia-tone, brown and white lettering, protected by modern mylar.

Travel agency offering vacation trips to the USSR by train, plane or cruise throughout the year, including a package to the celebrations of the anniversary of the Russian Revolution on October 17 (Anniversaire des Journées de 1917). Destinations offered in this advertisement are Moscow, Leningrad, the Crimea, the Caucasian Riviera, Soviet Armenia, the Ukraine, incl. Kharkiv, Odessa, and a Volga cruise. Beautifully illustrated with photographs by Théo Brugière.

Contains stamp of "Wagons-Lits // Cook" World Travel Organization, Cannes. The Belgium railcar manufacturer Wagon-Lits bought the British travel agency Thomas Cook & Sons in 1927, an effort by the Belgium manufacturer and operator of theOrient Express to focus more on the travel business. Minor wear. Near fine condition. Item #51027

Price: $275.00