IN -- I-90 @ Hammond -- Visitor Center: South Short Posters exhibit:
Bruce Guthrie Photos Home Page: [Click here] to go to Bruce Guthrie Photos home page.
Description of Pictures: South Shore Posters
The South Shore Line, the Indiana commuter train running from South Bend to Chicago, was extremely successful between 1925 and 1929. Ridership increased dramatically, from 1.5 million passengers in 1925 to more than 3 million by 1929.
The line began an intense marketing/advertising campaign to boost ridership. All of this investment and planning worked. South Shore Line employees used various marketing techniques to get the word out about the South Shore train. Staff sent stories of events and destinations along the South Shore Line to local newspapers.
They ran ads emphasizing the speed of trips to Chicago. They created window displays in stations announcing special events and attractions and a miniature exhibition of the South Shore Line. A monthly magazine called South Shore Lines was produced and made available in stations, on the trains, and even by mail.
The iconic and most notable of these publicity efforts, was the series of colorful posters depicting the attractions along the South Shore, especially the Dunes. These posters were exhibited in stations, enticing the viewer to travel to beautiful spots along the South Shore Line. The poster art covered topics such as the Dunes, the four seasons of the South Shore, steelmaking, Notre Dame Football, and general views of northern Indiana.
The South Shore Line continues today as a heavily traveled transportation system, linking Hoosiers with downtown Chicago and Chicagoans with the beaches and attractions of Northwest Indiana.
To purchase a vintage, contemporary or regional South Shore poster, visit southshoreposters.com or stop by the Indiana Welcome Center or South Shore Arts.
Recognize anyone? If you recognize specific people (or other things) in the pictures which I haven't labeled, please identify them for the world. Or fill in any other descriptions you can. Click the little pencil icon underneath the file name (just above the picture). Spammers need not apply.
Slide Show: Want to see the pictures as a slide show?
[Slideshow]
Copyrights: All pictures were taken by amateur photographer Bruce Guthrie (me!) who retains copyright on them. Free for non-commercial use with attribution. See the [Creative Commons] definition of what this means. "Photos (c) Bruce Guthrie" is fine for attribution. (Commercial use folks can of course contact me.) Feel free to use in publications and pages with attribution but you don't have permission to sell the photos themselves. A free copy of any printed publication using any photographs is requested. Descriptive text, if any, is from a mixture of sources, quite frequently from signs at the location or from official web sites; copyrights, if any, are retained by their original owners.
Connection Not Secure messages? Those warnings you get from your browser about this site not having secure connections worry some people. This means this site does not have SSL installed (the link is http:, not https:). That's bad if you're entering credit card numbers, passwords, or other personal information. But this site doesn't collect any personal information so SSL is not necessary. Life's good!
Help? The Medium (Email) links are for screen viewing and emailing. You'll want bigger sizes for printing. [Click here for additional help]
Specific picture descriptions: Photos above with "i" icons next to the bracketed sequence numbers (e.g. "[1] ") are described as follows:
I90HAS_170806_001.JPG: 20th Anniversary
"Just Around the Corner"
South Shore Line Posters
A Retrospective of Original Paintings
The new South Shore Line poster series started in June 1997. The series is designed to promote NW Indiana to the Chicago area and beyond.
I90HAS_170806_005.JPG: Just Around the Corner, 1997
Mitch Markovitz
I90HAS_170806_010.JPG: Indiana Society of Chicago, 1999
Mitch Markovitz
I90HAS_170806_014.JPG: Power, 2006
John Rush
I90HAS_170806_024.JPG: Shirley Heinze Land Trust, 2011
Barbara Spies Labus
I90HAS_170806_031.JPG: It's Our Nature, 2000
Fred Semmler
I90HAS_170806_037.JPG: Independence, 1999
John Rush
I90HAS_170806_043.JPG: Wizard of Oz Festival, 2010
Mitch Markovitz
I90HAS_170806_051.JPG: Challenger Learning Center, 2002
Neil J. Kienitz
I90HAS_170806_056.JPG: Old Lake County Courthouse, 1999
Bruce Cegur
I90HAS_170806_061.JPG: Flight, 2003
John Rush
I90HAS_170806_068.JPG: The Brown Mansion, 2015
Mitch Markovitz
I90HAS_170806_073.JPG: South Bend, 2002
Mitch Markovitz
I90HAS_170806_078.JPG: Memorial Opera House, 2001
Mitch Markovitz
I90HAS_170806_083.JPG: Winning, 2001
Bruce Cegur
I90HAS_170806_087.JPG: Through the Ages, 2015
Mitch Markovitz
I90HAS_170806_093.JPG: Spring Wildflowers, 2012
Barbara Spies Labus
I90HAS_170806_099.JPG: Summer Wildflowers, 2012
Barbara Spies Labus
I90HAS_170806_104.JPG: Winter Evergreens, 2012
Barbara Spies Labus
I90HAS_170806_108.JPG: Autumn Wildflowers, 2012
Barbara Spies Labus
I90HAS_170806_113.JPG: Strength & Beauty, 1997
John Rush
I90HAS_170806_118.JPG: Steel for the World, 2008
Mitch Markovitz
I90HAS_170806_228.JPG: Lake Michigan Water Trail -- Paddling the Dunes, 2011
Barbara Spies Labus
I90HAS_170806_232.JPG: Purdue Calumet, 1999
Alan Larkin
I90HAS_170806_240.JPG: Hats Off to the Arts, 2006
Mitch Markovitz
I90HAS_170806_247.JPG: Friends in Calumet, 2016
Mitch Markovitz
I90HAS_170806_251.JPG: A Classic Never Goes Out of Style, 2009
Judith Mayer
I90HAS_170806_256.JPG: Autumn on the Casual Coast, 2001
Mitch Markovitz
I90HAS_170806_260.JPG: Surfing Holiday, 1999
Fred Semmler
I90HAS_170806_265.JPG: Our Standard (The Whiting Refinery), 1999
Mitch Markovitz
I90HAS_170806_270.JPG: Munster, IN -- Center for the Visual and Performing Arts, 2000
Fred Semmler
I90HAS_170806_273.JPG: Cheers to Region Beer!, 2016
Mitch Markovitz
I90HAS_170806_280.JPG: Now Arriving, 2000
Alan Larkin
I90HAS_170806_285.JPG: Power to Move, 1998
Mitch Markovitz
I90HAS_170806_290.JPG: Indiana's North Coast, 1998
Mitch Markovitz
I90HAS_170806_296.JPG: Innovation, 2009
Michael Chelich
I90HAS_170806_303.JPG: 100 Years of Enduring Tradition, 2008
Mitch Markovitz
I90HAS_170806_309.JPG: Steel for the World, 2008
Mitch Markovitz
I90HAS_170806_313.JPG: Strength & Beauty, 1997
John Rush
I90HAS_170806_323.JPG: Hoosier Prairie, 1999
Alice Phillips
Limiting Text: You can turn off all of this text by clicking this link:
[Thumbnails Only]
Multi Column: Number of columns of thumbnails to appear per page (normally defaults to 3):
[1 col][2][3][4][5]
Bigger photos? To save space on the server and because the modern camera images are so large, photos larger than 640x480 have not been loaded on this page. If you need the bigger sizes of selected photos, email me and I can email them back to you or I can re-load this page temporarily with the bigger versions restored.
Same Subject: Click on this link to see coverage of items having the same subject:
[Transportation (Road)]
2017 photos: Equipment this year: I continued to use my Fuji XS-1 cameras but, depending on the event, I also used a Nikon D7000.
Trips this year:
Civil War Trust conferences in Pensacola, FL, Chattanooga, TN (via sites in Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Tennessee) and Fredericksburg, VA,
a family reunion in The Dells, Wisconsin (via sites in Ohio, Indiana, and Wisconsin),
New York City, and
my 12th consecutive San Diego Comic Con trip (including sites in Arizona).
For some reason, several of my photos have been published in physical books this year which is pretty cool. Ones that I know about:
"Tarzan, Jungle King of Popular Culture" (David Lemmo),
"The Great Crusade: A Guide to World War I American Expeditionary Forces Battlefields and Sites" (Stephen T. Powers and Kevin Dennehy),
"The American Spirit" (David McCullough),
"Civil War Battlefields: Walking the Trails of History" (David T. Gilbert),
"The Year I Was Peter the Great: 1956 — Khrushchev, Stalin's Ghost, and a Young American in Russia" (Marvin Kalb), and
"The Judge: 26 Machiavellian Lessons" (Ron Collins and David Skover).
Number of photos taken this year: just below 560,000.