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“The Enterprizing Lunardi’s Grand Air Balloon”

A new acquisition by the Transportation Library documents the first successful balloon flight in England. The 1784 broadside features an illustration of Vincent Lunardi’s...
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Street Safety for Children: New Acquisition Highlights

Before widespread automobility, the street had been a shared public space – for pedestrians, bicycles, streetcars, horse-drawn vehicles – even a space for children’s...
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A Visual Feast : Bob Peak’s TWA Menus

  The Transportation Library is proud to debut a new exhibit: A Visual Feast: Bob Peak’s TWA Menus, now on display in our fifth...
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Casey Jones Memorial Flower

New Acquisition Highlight: Crocheted Flower, circa 1950, made by Janie Brady Jones, widow of folk hero railroad engineer Casey Jones In the early morning...
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‘Timetable Firsts’ exhibit reveals impactful moments in 20th century transportation history

Printed timetables were, by definition, ephemeral. Airline and railroad schedules were regularly updated, and with the release of a new timetable, the previous edition...
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Trucking By Electricity: The Fleet of the New York Edison Company

The New York Edison Company was the largest provider of electricity in New York City in the 1920s, employing a fleet of several hundred...
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Fleets of Modernism: the Streamliner Era and Beyond

In his 1937 book The Locomotive (its esthetics), industrial designer Raymond Loewy writes that the opportunity to design a locomotive for the Pennsylvania Railroad...
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Late 19th – Early 20th Century Bicycle and Bicycle Parts Catalogs

The safety bicycle was introduced in the 1880s, an alternative to the high-wheeler, or “ordinary” bicycles that had previously dominated the market. Improvements in...
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Introducing the Sullivan Collection: Chicago Transit History Through the Lens of a Railfan

Trainspotting—that passionate hobby of sighting specific trains on their routes—is one of the best-known examples of an “anorak subject.” Only truly dedicated railfans have...
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