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Claire Rochester. Photo by Bain News Service, 1916 April. http://hdl.loc.gov

Pictures to Go: Women and Automobiles

Posted by: Barbara Orbach Natanson

How have women and automobiles been depicted together? The image I conjured in my mind’s eye involved attractive women draped across a car in a purely decorative fashion–something like the image below, where the finer features of the bathing beauties are more on view than the Columbia Six Sport they are presumably helping to advertise. …

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Pictures to Go: Viewing Trains as Metaphors

Posted by: Kristi Finefield

The following is a guest post by Martha H. Kennedy, Curator of Popular & Applied Graphic Arts, Prints and Photographs Division. Travel by train, or what some called the “Iron horse,” dominated other forms of transport in America for nearly fifty years. During this “golden age” of railroads that began in 1865, public fascination with …

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Pictures to Go: Motorsickles

Posted by: Jeff Bridgers

I don’t want a pickle Just want to ride on my motorsickle And I don’t want a tickle ‘Cause I’d rather ride on my motorsickle — Arlo Guthrie, “The Motorcycle Song” Arlo Guthrie’s simple lyrics sum up the appeal of motorcycles which goes far beyond a vehicle for getting from place to place. Both the experience …

Smiling woman dressed in outdoor winter clothes holds a large, old-style camera

Pictures to Go: Up in the Air

Posted by: Kristi Finefield

My fascination with hot air balloons dates back to childhood, and the first time I saw one in the movie The Wizard of Oz. I’m not sure if it was because of my youth or because the balloon belonged to the “Wizard of Oz,” but it seemed pretty magical to me that there existed balloons …

Smiling woman dressed in outdoor winter clothes holds a large, old-style camera

Pictures to Go: Sleeping Car Quarters and Sleeping Car Porters

Posted by: Barbara Orbach Natanson

One of the wonders of modern transportation that advertisers at the turn of the twentieth century communicated through pictures was the compact luxury of railroad sleeping cars, stressing how they offered the comforts of home and more.​ Often shown as a side feature are the porters who tended to passengers’ needs. African-American sleeping car porters, …