On Exhibit: ‘Romancing the Rails’ captures golden age of train travel | The Daily Gazette
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Chesley Bonestell s painting of the towering New York Central Building on Park Avenue, circa 1929, left, and a painting by Walter L. Greene, longtime artist for General Electric in the early 20th century.
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Travel of any sort sounds refreshing after a year of quarantining. Perhaps that’s why “Romancing the Rails,” the latest exhibit to open at the Albany Institute of History & Art, seems so timely.
Through 20th-century photographs, locomotive models and paintings, “Romancing the Rails: Train Travel in the 1920s and 1930s” details the golden age of train travel in the U.S., focusing on the New York Central Railroad.
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Hobo Symbols From The Great Depression: The Secret Language Of America’s Itinerant Workers
In 1972 American industrial designer Henry Dreyfuss (March 2, 1904 – October 5, 1972) published The Symbol Sourcebook, A Comprehensive Guide to International Graphic Symbols.
“A ready reference aid and an inspiration to designers . All in all the best book now available on symbols.” –Library Journal.
This visual database of over 20,000 symbols provided a standard for industrial designers around the world. He included a section of 60 hobo signs, used by ‘transient working class men and women who traveled by train to communicate with one another in the Great Depression, late nineteenth and early twentieth century.