Erie Railway Tourist, 1854-1886: Transporting Visual Culture

by Herbert Gottfried

This book explores how the Erie Railway, in developing a series of sophisticated travel guides, made significant contributions to nineteenth-century visual culture and shaped the social life of Americans. The Erie Railway emerged during a time in which a societal response to the production of landscape paintings and prints led to a concurrent development of tourism. The era promoted a visual culture that encouraged scenic thinking in which closely...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1611462703
• ISBN13: 9781611462708
• Release Date: October 2018
• Publisher: Lehigh University Press
• Length: 120 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.3" x 9.4"