Stylized steam locomotive with billowing smoke, graphic print – Historic Reproduction
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Description
A window into the past: Stylized steam locomotive with billowing smoke, graphic print, preserved in this historic print. Drawn from the Snapshots of the Past archive, it is an authentic piece of documented history.
Choose the framed print, ready to hang the day it arrives, or the unframed print for a frame of your own. Perfect for a home, office, library or classroom wall, and a gift with a story behind it. Free shipping in the lower 48 states. Snapshots of the Past has been bringing history to the wall since 2001, for tens of thousands of customers worldwide.
Stylized steam locomotive with billowing smoke, graphic print
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Steam locomotives printed in bold, simplified shapes were a staple of rail travel advertising in the early twentieth century, when railroads competed hard for passengers and freight. Here the engine is drawn less as machinery than as a symbol of speed and power, with its smoke rendered in sweeping, billowing curves that suggest motion even on a still sheet. Posters like this one typically used flat areas of color and strong outlines so they could be read from a platform or a passing street. Look closely at how the smoke fills the upper part of the composition and pulls the eye along the line of the train.
| Original scan | 1,896 × 2,455 px · prints to 6 × 8 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | Train |
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