All Aboard!: Images from the Golden Age of Rail Travel
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| Rating | : | 4.85 (810 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0811817474 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 132 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-03-16 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
. Lynn Johnson is an executive for a major motion picture company.Michael O'Leary is the editor for a national group of magazines and the author of numerous books. They both live in Southern California
Lynn Johnson and Michael O'Leary's 'All Abroad!' captures the glory days of railroad travel. -- Vanity Fair
Through luggage labels, maps, posters, advertisements, promotional brochures, napkins, and other colorful ephemera, All Aboard! celebrates our romance with the railroad. This exciting new resource for train enthusiasts and everyone on the lookout for terrific images recreates the splendor of the modern locomotive era.. Travel back to the wonder years of rail in this beautiful compendium of art and illustration. Its pages provide a nostalgic look at rail travel as it used to be, from the exciting early days at the turn of the century through its heyday in the '30s and through World War II. Lynn Johnson and Michael O'Leary have collected hundreds of period images, from Deco-era logos that evoke the sleek, streamlined style of the day to wartime propaganda posters highlighting the musc
Graphic motion A wonderful soft back book of posters designed for instant nostalgia. I rather liked its comprehensiveness, mainly featuring US railroads but nicely chapters devoted to Canadian and European posters. Another nice touch is the inclusion of ads, baggage labels and several black and white photos.Predictably the posters tend to feature the streamline. "An Excellent Book for both Train and Art Lovers." according to Jason Lee. This book covers railroad advertising from the early 1900s to the late 50s. All color art and a few B&W pictures showing the real trains that influenced the advertising. It shows examples of railroad advertising from posters, timetables, brochures and luggage tags as well as railroads in the US, Canada and Europe. There is a breif history introdu. Sentimental Journey George R. Maxwell As always, Chronicle Books beautiful graphic series has captured a wonderful look back at riding the rails. Johnson and O'Leary have compiled a romantic collection of railroad commercial art.