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All Aboard Images from the Golden Age of Rail Travel by Johnson & O'Leary SC
All Aboard Images from the Golden Age of Rail Travel by Johnson & OLeary Soft Cover 1999 132 pages
ALL ABOARD! transports you back to the heyday of locomotive travel with well over a hundred timeless examples of commercial art that capture the spirit of the age. A colorful gallery of the images that lured travelers seeking adventure and luxury, All Aboard! takes us from the frontier lines that linked the virgin vastness of the West with the rest of the United States, through the rugged mountain rails of Canada, and beyond. A chapter on the Orient Express and other lines abroad adds international flair to the affair.
Presenting posters, advertisements, and memorabilia, All Aboard! is a journey through social history, a survey of design eras, and a virtual travelogue all in one. The sleek, streamlined trains of the thirties evoke elegant art deco graphics; the iron workhorses transporting troops and materiel during World War II are depicted in masculine social realist posters; the fifties see an increasing emphasis on the romance of vacation sites accessible by rail.
Perfect for graphic designers as well as train enthusiasts, All Aboard! provides an overview of the artistic, commercial, and social factors that culminated in the exciting graphic designs of the time when riding the rails meant riding in style.
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