The science of railways
A railway engineering textbook by Marshall Monroe Kirkman, published in New York and Chicago in 1904 by the World Railway Publishing Company for students and practising railroad men. The single picture is a decorative engraved vignette of an enthroned classical figure flanked by a bearded attendant and a seated child amid tools and clouds, with a wreath-like halo above. A designer might take from it the ornate allegorical frontispiece style of early twentieth-century technical books, with its framed central figure and symmetrical composition.
