Public TRANSIT in art . . .

a Franz Masereel print

       

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  "Sightsee London"    an Abram Games poster,  1968       
       

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early railway passengers in 1831       see full size

"Liverpool and Manchester Railway - first class, 1830"
"Liverpool and Manchester Railway - second and third class, 1831"
      
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an Edward Penfield illustration, 1890       see full size
        
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an L. Raven Hill illustration
           
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a print by Anders Zorn ... the interior of a city omnibus,  1892
    
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an Edward Leon Cortes painting,  1910?       see full size
         
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Franz Wacik       after the carnival
         
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a print by Otto Heinrich Strohmeyer,  1925       see full size
       
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1935       see full size

     

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a John Lockwood Kipling illustration       see full size
     
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 the 1904 New York subway,  under construction       see full size
         
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a 1920s subway escalator
         
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a 1924 British subway poster by Austin Cooper
"It is cooler down below.  Travel in comfort by Underground"
           
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1912 Germany  
             
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 this 1913 German public transit existed       see full size
     
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a 1917 Frederick Henry Townsend cartoon    "Please move back a little more!"
     
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a 1927 train station by E.A. Verpilleux       see full size
        
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a 1928 cartoon
     
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a 1930 print by Martin Lewis ... 'Subway steps'
 
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a 1934 print by Cyril Power ... 'The Sunshine Roof'       see full size

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an Antonio Petruccelli illustration       see full size
 
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 this 1870 pneumatic passenger car with 22 seats existed and operated in New York
  
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1954 London subway seat fabric
      
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 an 1864 cartoon       see full size
"It's not the getting in . . . but it's the getting out"
      
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a 'Greyhound Escorter' illustrated by Bob Peak ...
these were used at the 1964 NY World's fair       see full size
  
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a 1980s cartoon    "the bus"
    
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a 1987 Nick Hardcastle illustrated ad for the London subway
 
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a Drew Friedman comic about wrestler Tor Johnson  "Time for Tor to go on subway"    "Tor having fun on subway"