Transportation Library
Posted July 1, 2024
The George Hartsough Panama Canal Photographs, held in the collection of the Northwestern University Transportation Library, have been added to the library’s Digital Collections...
Posted May 17, 2024
Today, cyclists are widely seen as secondary road users in the United States, with the design of many roads hostile to their very presence....
Posted April 25, 2024
By Rachel Vigil and Gene Kannenberg, Jr. Though board games may not be the first thing that comes to mind when imagining the collections...
Posted April 18, 2024
By Natalia Gonzalez Blanco Serrano ’24 A recent donation to Northwestern’s Transportation Library just made it the only institution in the United States with...
Posted February 26, 2024
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...
Posted February 8, 2024
Before widespread automobility, the street had been a shared public space – for pedestrians, bicycles, streetcars, horse-drawn vehicles – even a space for children’s...
Posted December 18, 2023
The Transportation Library is proud to debut a new exhibit: A Visual Feast: Bob Peak’s TWA Menus, now on display in our fifth...
Posted August 9, 2023
New Acquisition Highlight: Crocheted Flower, circa 1950, made by Janie Brady Jones, widow of folk hero railroad engineer Casey Jones In the early morning...
Posted June 20, 2023
Transportation Library holdings link humans, history, and the environment On its maiden voyage across Lake Michigan, the SS Badger ferried passengers, autos, roll-on/roll-off freight...