Flyer
train
The morning flyer
“A gleaming shaft”
The vehicle of the metaphor, 1934:
A tenor, eternally recurring:
Product placement with revelation
As they soared over the junction where the streetcar track divided and transport could go two-way, it happened.
Suddenly the beer bottle grew huge and the white man in the boater looked up in surprise at the black man. Rigid, with bulging eyes, the black man was staring into a zone just above the other white man, the one in the thinking cap. Seen as yet only by the black man, light had begun descending on his table as it descends on the high places where to see is to know love .
Source: Popular Graphic Arts Collection, Library of Congress, http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2003663800/. Photoshopped.
In 1910, she dreams
of 1910, which is less a time than a world which fully contains her life, giving it a body and clothes to shape and color it.
Source: E. S. Yates, lithograph “Twentieth Century Transportation,” 1910. Popular Graphic Arts Collection, Library of Congress, http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/97514565/. Photoshopped.
Art deco 1943: silverware for the streamline age
Source: Rare Book Division,The New York Public Library. “Burlington Zephyrs” The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1943. http://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/b7ece31d-7ed2-8808-e040-e00a18063f2c. Photoshopped.
Estampe XXVIII: American Pre-Raphaelite
Source: Detroit Publishing Company Collection, Library of Congress, http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/det1994006391/PP/. Photoshopped.
Estampe XXIV: former transports
Source: Detroit Publishing Company Collection, Library of Congress, http://www.loc.gov/item/det1994000820/PP/. 1904. Photoshopped.
Theory of art: through labor we become worthy of play
Miniature railway, Coney Island, New York, 1905. Source: Detroit Publishing Company Collection, Library of Congress, http://www.loc.gov/item/det1994015437/PP/. Photoshopped.
“Disaster” means “ill star”
Source: “Elevated car falls to street 2/16/14.” George Grantham Bain Collection, Library of Congress, http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2002699891/. Photoshopped.