Vintage Alaskan Klondike Gold Rush Travel Poster

This poster is a re-creation of an actual travel ad posted in the Omaha Daily Bee., in 1897. ***** It is standard poster seen here at 13" by 19" but is recommended you order the larger 24" by 36" so you can read all the text. This one is featured on poster paper and it is recommended you upgrade to archival matte paper should you want to frame this great collectors item. The trip to the Alaskan Gold Fields was a treacherous and expensive one and this ad appealed to those seeking to make this often deadly adventure. Some of the text your guests can read with amazement in this ad for the Alaskan Transportation and Development Company - GO ! FOR THE GOLD FIELDS OF ALASKA. $600--SIX HUNDRED DOLLARS--$600 Will take you to Alaska direct to Dawson City and will keep you in good , substantial food for one entire year. . . . . . . - > . It would cost you $1,200.00 to 31,500.00. You leave for Seattle in Match , arriving at the Gold fields in April. Our special steamer and transportation facilities will bring you there fully thirty days in advance of any other expedition. Our first expedition will be limited to one hundred men ( no more ) . If you are going to get some of the vast store-house of gold , be among the first , not the last , Remember $600.00 pays all your transportation and your food for a year. . .Cost of hams 35.00 to 50.00 Cost of live dogs per pound. . . 2.00 Cost of flour , 50-lb sacks 25.00 Cost of picks each 15.00 Cost of bacon 75 to 1.00 Cost of shovels 15.00 Cost of beef per pound 50 to 1.00 Wages per day. 15.00 to 20.00 Cost of coffee pound 1.00 Lumber thousand feet , $150 to $750 ------------------------------------------- This vintage look Alaskan Gold Rush transportation poster makes a great gift for any gold rush fan or any home or business in Alaska.