Freda Lingstrom Biography

Lingstrom was an artist, illustrator and author. She provided artwork for On The Line, a guide to LNER Trains, in 1928, and maps for Norwegian travel guide This Is Norway in 1933. Her first novel The Seventh Sister was published in 1938.
She was born in Chelsea, London, the daughter of George Lingstrom, a copperplate engraver, and Alice Clarey Amiss.

Beginning in 1922, her first clients were various railway companies including the London & North Eastern Railway, the Underground Group and the Norwegian state railway.  The Norwegian and Swedish government commissioned her to design Scandinavian travel propaganda for the English market.