Wiki143:Featured picture candidates/Rome travel poster

Rome travel poster

File:Romea.jpg

Original - Travel poster for train service from Paris to Rome, depicting the Temple of Saturn at the Roman Forum, 1920

File:Romeposter.jpg

Unedited version, for reference.

Reason

Early twentieth century color advertisements had gorgeous tones. I've fished this travel poster from the Library of Congress archives and tried to give it back the luster it had in 1920. The classical setting doesn't hurt for encyclopedic value.

Articles this image appears in

History of rail transport in France, Temple of Saturn

Creator

Geo Dorival

• Support as nominator Durova^Charge! 21:41, 15 February 2008 (UTC)
• Support Bewareofdog (talk) 23:38, 15 February 2008 (UTC)
• weak support very nice scan - technically great - but doesn't really seem to illustrate either of those articles particularly well. The history of rail, sort of, and the temple article less so. de Bivort 17:38, 16 February 2008 (UTC)
• Weak support per nom. —αἰτίας •discussion• 11:37, 17 February 2008 (UTC)
• Weak support per Debivort. I actually have a bunch of posters in my house with very similar images-- I love that style of graphic design, but I agree that this image is of limited encyclopedic value for the two articles mentioned in the nom. Spikebrennan (talk) 04:38, 18 February 2008 (UTC)
• Moderate Support per nom. Juliancolton (Talk) 14:42, 18 February 2008 (UTC)

Promoted Image:Romea.jpg MER-C 12:03, 22 February 2008 (UTC)