Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Atlantic States
Languages : en
Pages : 170
Book Description
Summer Excursion Routes
Author: Summer Excursions
Author: New York, West Shore and Buffalo Railway CompanyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : New York (State)
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
The Christian Union
Author: Henry Ward BeecherPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Christianity
Languages : en
Pages : 1324
Book Description
Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper
Author: John Albert SleicherPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 928
Book Description
The Official Railway Guide
Author: The Outlook
Author: Lyman AbbottPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 684
Book Description
Report
Author: New York State LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 166
Book Description
Documents of the Senate of the State of New York
Author: New York (State). Legislature. SenatePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1140
Book Description
The Official Guide of the Railways and Steam Navigation Lines of the United States, Porto Rico, Canada, Mexico and Cuba
Author: Home on the Rails
Author: Amy G. RichterPublisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 080787647X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Recognizing the railroad's importance as both symbol and experience in Victorian America, Amy G. Richter follows women travelers onto trains and considers the consequences of their presence there. For a time, Richter argues, nineteenth-century Americans imagined the public realm as a chaotic and dangerous place full of potential, where various groups came together, collided, and influenced one another, for better or worse. The example of the American railroad reveals how, by the beginning of the twentieth century, this image was replaced by one of a domesticated public realm--a public space in which both women and men increasingly strove to make themselves "at home." Through efforts that ranged from the homey touches of railroad car decor to advertising images celebrating female travelers and legal cases sanctioning gender-segregated spaces, travelers and railroad companies transformed the railroad from a place of risk and almost unlimited social mixing into one in which white men and women alleviated the stress of unpleasant social contact. Making themselves "at home" aboard the trains, white men and women domesticated the railroad for themselves and paved the way for a racially segregated and class-stratified public space that freed women from the home yet still preserved the railroad as a masculine domain.