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Company: Southern Railway
Title: The favourite - South for sunshine!
Date: 1927
Description: The original photograph for this poster was taken in 1924 at Waterloo Station by Charles E. Brown. The poster was an immediate success and was reprinted several times in different guises. It showed a small boy with spectacles and a suitcase speaking to the driver. The Southern Railway offered to present a framed copy of the poster to the boy whose identity was then unknown. Quite a number of parents took their children to the offices at Waterloo but all were sent away disappointed. Eventually the little boy was found to have emigrated to California with his father, who was formerly employed in the Electrical Department at Waterloo. The boy was called Ronald Witt.
Inv. No. 1986-9112
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