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

Object Details

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.
Data Source
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
Designer
Raymond Loewy, American, b. France, 1893–1986
Client
Pennsylvania Railroad, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Manufacturer
Pennsylvania Railroad, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Date
1936
Credit Line
Gift of the Pennsylvania Railroad through Samuel M. Vauclain
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.)
Type
transportation
Object Name
Drawing
Type
Drawing

Featured In

  • 1937: A Year in the Collections
  • Trains at Smithsonian Station
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