£325
Advertising Poster Pitch Lake Asphalt Trinidad Tobago. Original vintage educational poster from the Macmillan's Geography Pictures series - The Pitch Lake in Trinidad - featuring people in white uniforms digging and loading up carts on tracks. The factory in the background is surrounded by yellow sand, blue sea and palm trees. This renowned Pitch Lake is the largest, commercial deposit of natural asphalt in the world. It has fascinated explorers, scientists and common folk since its re-discovery by Sir Waiter Raleigh in the year 1595. Raleigh himself used asphalt from the Lake to caulk his battered ship.Horizontal. Good condition, creasing, staining, pinholes. Country of issue: UK, designer: Lupton, size (cm): 43x53, year of printing: 1950s.
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