| | Thumbnail | | Creator | Date | Title / Author / Date / Location | Price | | | Description |
| 8000 |  | Details | Exploration Cruise Lines | 1985 |
| Cool pictorial cruise poster of Alaska |
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Exploration Cruise Lines |
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| 1985 |
| LOC:130 |
| $365.00 | Exploration-Cruise-Lines | Cool-pictorial-cruise-poster-of-Alaska | Rare possibly unrecorded large format travel poster for Exploration Cruise Lines ca. 1985.
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This promotional poster for Exploration Cruise Lines presents a stylized map of Alaska and the Pacific Northwest, built around the slogan “Nobody Gets You Closer to Alaska.” The map combines illustrated geographic features—such as Glacier Bay, Frederick Sound, the Gulf of Alaska, Yakutat Bay, and the Inside Passage—with small icons marking wildlife including bears, eagles, whales, seals, and mountain goats. Port calls and route segments are clearly labeled: Sitka, Juneau, Ketchikan, Wrangell, Petersburg, Seward, Prince Rupert, and other locations appear along color-coded itineraries for the Great Rivers Explorer and Pacific-Northwest Explorer. Insets summarize key regions (“Outside, the Inside Passage,” “Yakutat Bay,” “The Inside Passage and Beyond,” and “Alaska for the Independent Traveler”), highlighting landmarks such as Columbia Glacier, Hubbard Glacier, the Kenai Peninsula, Denali National Park, and the Misty Fiords National Monument.
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The lower section features a large depiction of an Exploration Cruise Lines vessel entering Alaskan waters, together with the company’s name and sunburst logo. Text blocks emphasize the line’s focus on remote scenery, wildlife viewing, and smaller-ship access to narrow channels and glacial bays. A sidebar provides a simplified Inside Passage index and distances between ports, reinforcing the company’s claim of operating close-in routes not accessible to larger cruise ships. As a surviving piece of cruise-line ephemera from a short-lived 1980s operator, the poster documents how Exploration Cruise Lines marketed its Alaskan itineraries and presents a period design that blends infographic mapping with illustrative regional imagery. |