spirit of progress
The «Spirit of Progress»
“American Progress” by John GastIn 1872, John Gast (1842-?) painted American Progress (Museum of the American West, Autry National Center, Los Angeles), an allegorical representation of North American West modernization. |
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Cleveland Industrial Exposition (1909)The Spirit of Progress in Cleveland Industrial Exposition (1909) … |
Spirit of Progress in Hudson-Fulton Celebration (1909) |
Progress in “Travail et Progrès” (1910)The frontspice of “Travail et Progrès” [Work and Progress], published, in Paris, in 1910, by Philippe Hettinger, presents Progress, the Spirit of Progres, figured as a young woman standing on a winged weel — the Weel of Progress —, holding an electric lamp in her right hand, and crossing an industrial landscape (factory, train, bridge, baloon, …). That central image is surrounded by steam ships and technical objects (photo camera, telephone, electric wires, …) that were quite new then. |
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American Progress in Rockefeller Center (New York) |
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Victorian Railways Spirit of Progress (1937)The Spirit of Progress … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … |
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