Poster ‘The Golden Chersonese’

This is a poster published by the Federated Malay States Railways and Printed by Ying Wah Fine Art Lithograph Press in the early to mid-twentieth century. It advertises 'The Golden Chersonese', the name used for the Malay Peninsula by Greek and Roman geographers in classical antiquity. It depicts a steam train cutting across a golden mountain, with lush foliage on either side and the silhouette of a mountain in the background.