Final Tissue for Creation of Illustration of Streamline K4s Locomotive, Pennsylvania Railroad

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Object Details

Designer
Raymond Loewy, American, b. France, 1893–1986
Client
Pennsylvania Railroad, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Manufacturer
Pennsylvania Railroad, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Description
A final tissue for K-4 class locomotive, a streamlined train. A locomotive, in the form of a bullet (engine number 5400) is depicted as approaching diagonally from right distance to left foreground on the center of three tracks.
Credit Line
Gift of the Pennsylvania Railroad through Samuel M. Vauclain
1936
Accession Number
1937-58-2
Restrictions & Rights
Usage conditions apply
Type
transportation
Object Name
Drawing
Type
Drawing
Medium
Graphite, yellow crayon on tracing paper
Dimensions
47.6 x 62cm (18 3/4 x 24 7/16in.)
Mat: 55.9 x 71.1 cm (22 x 28 in.)
designed in
France
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Record ID
chndm_1937-58-2
Metadata Usage (text)
Not determined
GUID (Link to Original Record)
http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq411aef206-64b0-4064-a8f4-a69b5c1edeef
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