Phoebe Snow (character)

A 1906 postcard promotion for the Lackawanna Limited; Phoebe Snow stands on the observation car platform dressed in white and holding her traditional violet corsage.

Phoebe Snow was a fictional character created by Earnest Elmo Calkins to promote the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad. The advertising campaign was one of the first to present a fictional character based on a live model.[citation needed]