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 Railroad companies used art to appeal to customers. This resulted in Railroads being represented as opportunities to leisurely enjoy the views of America in person, instead of just through art. Railroads were represented as a way to "experience the sublime landscape they had previously known only in art" (Danly, 32). To push this idea further, railroads began to use the image of the landscape seen through the train window. **This cultivated the notion that the best way to truly experience the landscape artwork people have admired was in person, and the best way to do that in comfort and ease, was by riding on the railroad. Railroads then began to represent the opportunity to see America in person instead of through artwork.** - Shannon K.  Railroad companies used art to appeal to customers. This resulted in Railroads being represented as opportunities to leisurely enjoy the views of America in person, instead of just through art. Railroads were represented as a way to "experience the sublime landscape they had previously known only in art" (Danly, 32). To push this idea further, railroads began to use the image of the landscape seen through the train window. **This cultivated the notion that the best way to truly experience the landscape artwork people have admired was in person, and the best way to do that in comfort and ease, was by riding on the railroad. Railroads then began to represent the opportunity to see America in person instead of through artwork.** - Shannon K. 
  
 +Railroads as depicted in american art, most notably John Gast's painting //American Progress//, depicts railroads as part of the american movement to expand the country and to explore. This ideal was found primarily in the idea of manifest destiny that was a driving factor in much of the western settlements. It was also an ideal that would lead to the American Dream ideal that inspired many people to come to America in pursuit of their fortune. Thomas Lanier
  
 The railroad was a new an exciting technology that changed the way urbanization occurred in America. The railroad brought the cities to the farms and vice versa.There was a slow flux of product and goods come and going from country to city.  Their appearance in art was similar. It was a change that slowly occurred in art work. Subtle changes such as a change in landscape, from rolling hills to a flat horizon. This was seen in America to make grounds for the rails to be laid. Then there was the addition of one railway with white smoke trailing behind it. The train would be small in comparison to the entire picture, it was there but it wasn’t the main focus. As the railway increased in America, so did its appearance in art. --- //[[abrooks6@umw.edu|Brooks Anna R.]] 2017/02/08 14:57//  The railroad was a new an exciting technology that changed the way urbanization occurred in America. The railroad brought the cities to the farms and vice versa.There was a slow flux of product and goods come and going from country to city.  Their appearance in art was similar. It was a change that slowly occurred in art work. Subtle changes such as a change in landscape, from rolling hills to a flat horizon. This was seen in America to make grounds for the rails to be laid. Then there was the addition of one railway with white smoke trailing behind it. The train would be small in comparison to the entire picture, it was there but it wasn’t the main focus. As the railway increased in America, so did its appearance in art. --- //[[abrooks6@umw.edu|Brooks Anna R.]] 2017/02/08 14:57// 
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 I found it particularly interesting that Danly discussed the romanticized attitude toward the railroad was a reflection of the period's "machine aesthetic". Alongside **names like, lightening that emphasized the speed these engines had were names like Hercules and Ajax, mythological heroes associated with strength and speed.** The romanticized images that many artists produced was definitely a reflection of the Industrial Age, while some of the general population was fearful of the technological advancements being made, many others saw the potential that these new inventions brought and embraced them. I also loved the way that many artists juxtaposed the natural world to the newly formed industrial, which I believe caused viewers/observers to consider the true impact that the railroad was having on the country and its people. - Danielle Howard I found it particularly interesting that Danly discussed the romanticized attitude toward the railroad was a reflection of the period's "machine aesthetic". Alongside **names like, lightening that emphasized the speed these engines had were names like Hercules and Ajax, mythological heroes associated with strength and speed.** The romanticized images that many artists produced was definitely a reflection of the Industrial Age, while some of the general population was fearful of the technological advancements being made, many others saw the potential that these new inventions brought and embraced them. I also loved the way that many artists juxtaposed the natural world to the newly formed industrial, which I believe caused viewers/observers to consider the true impact that the railroad was having on the country and its people. - Danielle Howard
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 +The way that trains and railroads were romanticized in art makes it even more clear that Americans thought of the railroad as something as American as the American landscape. The contrast between the hardness of this “iron horse” and the way it is depicted as a soft creature that blends in with the landscape is interesting and obviously intentional. Figure 12 with the rainbow above the train chugging along while cows graze leisurely embodies this ideology perfectly. I’d never thought of the railroads impact on art, but the art clearly shows that the railroad permeated every aspect of American life. --Anna Collins
 ===== Arthur McEvoy, "Working Environments" ===== ===== Arthur McEvoy, "Working Environments" =====
 **McEvoy makes an interesting comparison between the human body and ecological systems.** However, I thought his comparison of "Accidents and diseases are an ecological consequence of that organization no less than soil erosion is a consequence of the economies of agriculture or fishery depletion has its roots in the regulatory structure of fishing."(p78) This quote was particularly interesting to me because it showed that white industrialization, accidents and diseases are more prominent than they were previously but they are a risk that goes hand in hand with industrialization. The same is true that agricultural economies face the risk of soil erosion and fishermen face the potential for fishery depletion. While none of these outcomes are pleasant, they are a very real risk that comes with the territory. -Emma Baumgardner  **McEvoy makes an interesting comparison between the human body and ecological systems.** However, I thought his comparison of "Accidents and diseases are an ecological consequence of that organization no less than soil erosion is a consequence of the economies of agriculture or fishery depletion has its roots in the regulatory structure of fishing."(p78) This quote was particularly interesting to me because it showed that white industrialization, accidents and diseases are more prominent than they were previously but they are a risk that goes hand in hand with industrialization. The same is true that agricultural economies face the risk of soil erosion and fishermen face the potential for fishery depletion. While none of these outcomes are pleasant, they are a very real risk that comes with the territory. -Emma Baumgardner 
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 +I think that the connection that McEvoy makes between the effect that industrialization has not only on the physical environment, but on the social environment as well. On page 78 it is stated that "Technology, in addition, plays an important role in shaping peoples consciousness of occupational hazard, just as it does in the awareness of other social problems"(78). I find it interesting that in this time period it took a great amount of convincing for the people to recognize the severity of the risks that came with the workplace. It took an equal amount of convincing to make the owners of factories to implement safety measures for their workers. Given how much labor was lost due to these accidents and the overall setback that it had on the organization structure of these factories. The idea that so many accidents that lead to death or severe injury that went unnoticed is baffling. --Kendell Jenkins
  
 I found it interesting how McEvoy compared nature and workers as “close cousins working on opposite sides of the factory gate:” (81) He follows up his statement saying “one destroys the productivity of air, water, and other natural systems, while the other destroys a human body’s biological capacity to work.” (81) I never would’ve thought about these two parts of industry to go hand in hand with each other because just as the argument McEvoy was making, it’s usually overlooked and both parts (nature and workers) are interchangeable just like the machines that they are being used for. – Jessie Cavolt I found it interesting how McEvoy compared nature and workers as “close cousins working on opposite sides of the factory gate:” (81) He follows up his statement saying “one destroys the productivity of air, water, and other natural systems, while the other destroys a human body’s biological capacity to work.” (81) I never would’ve thought about these two parts of industry to go hand in hand with each other because just as the argument McEvoy was making, it’s usually overlooked and both parts (nature and workers) are interchangeable just like the machines that they are being used for. – Jessie Cavolt
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