Description: Travel by Train: The American Railroad Poster 1870-1950 by Michael Zega & John Gruber (2002, HCDJ) Like New HCDJ, 2002, Like New Condition. DJ: Very clean, no marks, tears, folds, some scuffing. Book: very clean red cover with front of train engine embossed (red) on front cover, title in gold printing on spine. Spine tight. Pages: very clean, no marks, tears or folds. 11.25" x 11.25" x 1.0" 142 pages of historical narrative & beautiful color & black & white pictures. Between 1870 and 1950, America’s railroads produced a body of poster work significant both for the artists involved and for the range of images created. The railroads used this visual medium from their founding, first in the form of broadsides, dominated by text and intended to convey practical information, and then, during the 1890s, as vivid lithographed display posters. For the next 50 years, American railroads commissioned posters designed to spur the popular imagination and thereby encourage travel. Images of compelling intensity included Maurice Logan’s icons of the 1920s overland limiteds passing in the West; Adolph Treidler’s wonder cities; Santa Fe’s Native Americans; and Leslie Ragan’s and Sascha Maurer’s machine-age steamliners.Although a great deal has been written about European railway and travel posters, their American counterparts remained in the shadows. Travel by Train focuses on the artists, railroad men, and advertising agencies that created and produced the work. It presents the posters in the context of the historical trends and competitive strategies that shaped the development of the railroad industry. The book also follows the development of the advertising business and graphic design in the U.S. and Europe. It features approximately 160 poster images (many in color), personal photographs, and sketches, many of them never before published.
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Book Title: Travel by Train: The American Railroad Poster 1870-1950
Signed: No
Ex Libris: No
Narrative Type: Nonfiction
Item Length: 11.25 in
Original Language: English
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Intended Audience: Adults
Inscribed: No
Vintage: No
Personalize: No
Publication Year: 2002
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Era: 2000s
Item Height: 1.0 in
Personalized: No
Author: John E. Gruber, Michael E. Zega
Features: Dust Jacket, Illustrated
Genre: Antiques & Collectibles, Railroads
Topic: Historical, Railroad Posters, Railroads / General
Country/Region of Manufacture: China
Item Width: 11.25 in
Number of Pages: 142
