Graphic Design In Transportation: Snapshots from Transportation’s Winter Open House
Posted April 13, 2023
We invite you to join us at the Transportation Library for our Spring Open House on April 27 from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m.,...Transportation Library
Posted April 13, 2023
We invite you to join us at the Transportation Library for our Spring Open House on April 27 from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m.,...Posted March 10, 2023
Printed timetables were, by definition, ephemeral. Airline and railroad schedules were regularly updated, and with the release of a new timetable, the previous edition...Posted January 25, 2023
A pilot project issuing travel grants to far-flung scholars for visiting Northwestern Libraries collections in person was such a success for the 2022-2023 academic...Posted January 11, 2023
The New York Edison Company was the largest provider of electricity in New York City in the 1920s, employing a fleet of several hundred...Posted January 9, 2023
The National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 fully came into effect in January of 1970, and with it began the age of Environmental Impact...Posted May 11, 2022
In his 1937 book The Locomotive (its esthetics), industrial designer Raymond Loewy writes that the opportunity to design a locomotive for the Pennsylvania Railroad...Posted March 25, 2021
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...Posted February 21, 2021
By Liz Hamilton, copyright librarian Happy Fair Use/Fair Dealing Week! This international event, observed February 22-26, celebrates fair use (an exception under copyright law...Posted January 15, 2021
Dating from 1910 to 1932, the advertising materials and travel ephemera in the Early Automobile Companies Ephemera Collection, held in the collections of the...