The goal of this project for me was to romanticize and pay homage to the age of steam. Even though there is a contradiction in the technology, the phone, that the woman is holding up, this level of steam engineering, a mallet steam locomotive would not be designed and built until the mid the late 1940's. I decided not to use scratch overlays from 3rd party sites, because I wanted to see who well I could create them on my own. The drips convey a sense of sadness and at the same time give a feeling of high humidity. The part of the image that I appropriated from the Library of Congress was the engineer and conductor exchanging orders.
Link to Library of Congress Image: https://www.loc.gov/pictures/resource/fsa.8d11758/
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