A wild cat train: no stop overs / Tho. Worth. – Vintage Print
(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 wild cat train: no stop overs / Tho. Worth.
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A wildcat train with "no stop overs" written across it turns a common 19th-century complaint into a joke. Wildcat railroads were speculative lines, often built cheaply and carelessly, and they earned a poor reputation across the United States. Thomas Worth, whose signature appears on the print, drew many comic railroad scenes for Currier & Ives, the firm that sold inexpensive colored lithographs to a broad middle-class public. The humor plays on the public's wariness about rail travel during the boom years of the 1880s, when new lines were multiplying faster than safety standards could keep up.
| Created / published | New York: published by Currier & Ives, c1884. |
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| Medium | 1 print : lithograph, color. |
| Genre | Lithographs Color 1880-1890. |
| Notes | Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 7206. |
| Subjects | Railroads--1880-1890. Passengers--1880-1890. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,000 × 2,045 px · prints to 10 × 7 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-175265 |
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