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Concrete Plans: Reports and Planning Studies from the Projects of Robert Moses

The Northwestern University Transportation Library is proud to debut a new exhibit: Concrete Plans: Reports and Planning Studies from the Projects of Robert Moses,...
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Newly Digitized George Hartsough Panama Canal Photographs Offer a Personal Look into a Massive Project

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...
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Velocipedomania! Cyclists Pave the Way for Road Infrastructure

Today, cyclists are widely seen as secondary road users in the United States, with the design of many roads hostile to their very presence....
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Playing Tabletop Treasures from the Collections

By Rachel Vigil and Gene Kannenberg, Jr. Though board games may not be the first thing that comes to mind when imagining the collections...
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Niche publications round out Transportation Library collections

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...
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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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