Railroad Nation - Schwantes, Carlos Arnaldo
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From passenger tickets, wall calendars, and advertising posters to train orders and bills of lading, railroads have left a colorful paper trail across America. In Railroad Nation, historian Carlos Arnaldo Schwantes examines a fascinating array of these materials, showcasing the railroad industry's incredible variety of eye-catching illustrations to enliven their timetables and promotional brochures. Schwantes traces the evolution of railroad commercial art from drab black-and-white broadsides and text-only advertisements that the early railroads placed in local newspapers to the riotous…mehr

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From passenger tickets, wall calendars, and advertising posters to train orders and bills of lading, railroads have left a colorful paper trail across America. In Railroad Nation, historian Carlos Arnaldo Schwantes examines a fascinating array of these materials, showcasing the railroad industry's incredible variety of eye-catching illustrations to enliven their timetables and promotional brochures. Schwantes traces the evolution of railroad commercial art from drab black-and-white broadsides and text-only advertisements that the early railroads placed in local newspapers to the riotous mélange of color graphics in the early twentieth century, when the visual appeal of public timetables and their thousands of different brochures enticed settlers to create farms, ranches, and towns alongside newly laid tracks. Railroad Nation offers readers an unparalleled look at the ephemera of the railroad industry, highlighting the vibrant history of railroading in America through its rich tapestry of visual materials.
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Carlos Arnaldo Schwantes is St. Louis Mercantile Library Professor of History Emeritus at the University of Missouri-St. Louis. He is author or editor of twenty books, including Electric Indiana: The Rise and Fall of the World's Greatest Interurban Railway Center, 1893-1941, and (with Peter Hansen and Don Hofsommer) Crossroads of a Continent: Missouri Railroads, 1851-1921. He grew up in Greenfield and Indianapolis, Indiana, and now lives in Missouri. He has taught undergraduate and graduate history for exactly fifty years, sixteen of which have been at the University of Missouri-St. Louis.