To all who travel by the / lith. by J.M.W. Jones S. & P. Co. – Antique Wall Art
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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A window into the past: To all who travel by the / lith. by J.M.W. Jones S. & P. Co., preserved in this historic image. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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To all who travel by the / lith. by J.M.W. Jones S. & P. Co.
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Here the railroad sits inside a horseshoe, while the outer rim shows older ways of traveling: immigrants arriving by steamship, a mule towing a canal boat, and two horsemen robbing travelers. Within the horseshoe, a locomotive pulls into snow-covered tracks and tosses snow onto waiting passengers, a playful way of suggesting the train's speed and reliability. The small vignettes at the bottom show the dining car and reclining chair car as the comforts of modern rail travel. The firm of J.M.W. Jones produced many railroad advertising prints in the early 1880s, and this one argues that the train had left the dangers of earlier journeys behind.
| Created / published | Chicago : J.M.W. Jones S. & P. Co., c1882 September. |
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| Subjects | SUMMARY: Print showing, around the outer rim of a horseshoe, immigrants from many nations arriving by steamship, a man with a mule pulling a canal boat, two bandits on horseback robbing travelers, and within the horseshoe, a locomotive arriving on snow-covered tracks, tossing snow onto the clothing of waiting passengers. At the bottom of the print are two vignettes, identified on the color print as, on the left, "interior of world famous dining car" and on the right, "interior reclining chair car." Text (not printed on the b&w impression) on the horseshoe "Speed Comfort & Safety" is largely obscured by the coloring. Horseshoe may suggest, good luck! "to all who travel by the" (?). |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,000 × 3,732 px · prints to 10 × 12 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 28 |
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