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Moonlight in Duneland: The Illustrated Story of the Chicago South Shore and South Bend Railroad | 
 enlarge | Creators: Ronald D. Cohen, Stephen G. Mcshane, South Shore And South Bend Railroad Chicago
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  8 reviews
Sales Rank: 1345418
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 139
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.8
Dimensions (in): 13.4 x 10.3 x 0.8
ISBN: 0253334187
Dewey Decimal Number: 769.4938550977311
EAN: 9780253334183
ASIN: 0253334187
Publication Date: October 1998
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Known as the "Little Train That Could," the Chicago South Shore and South Bend Railroad has served as a major commercial and recreational transportation link for ninety years. For its first two decades, it survived good times and bad until its landmark purchase by Samuel Insull's Midland Utilities in 1925. Insull launched an aggressive marketing campaign producing booklets, movies, and in particular a set of colorful, artistic posters, which attracted many from Illinois to the sand dunes and steel mills of Northwest Indiana. Moonlight in Duneland tells the story of that poster campaign through the reproduction of the thirty-eight known surviving posters. Additional advertising items from the 1920s and 1970s are sprinkled throughout the book, along with original art by Dale Fleming, Mitchell A. Markovitz, Alice Phillips, and John Rush. In addition, four essays describe the background of Insull's marketing genius and the artists who created the posters. While Moonlight in Duneland pays tribute to eras gone by, it also traces a new period of growth in the Calumet Region - "A Region in Renaissance." Sponsored by the Northwest Indiana Forum, new poster art has been commissioned to celebrate the many wonders of the area, and several of these images are magnificently reproduced as a complement to the posters from the twenties.
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 South Shore Nostalgia August 1, 2007
Perhaps you have never ridden the South Shore, or even heard of it...this book will walk you down a nostalgic path of its history. The illustrations are beautiful and worthy of framing. Moonlight in Duneland would be a wonderful gift for anyone who has ever lived in the Michiana area, or dreams of doing so.
I bought it mainly for the poster art October 26, 2004
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I bought it mainly for the poster art. It's too bad there is a "no image available" on the cover here on Amazon. You would see (and appreciate) the artwork. There is history of the area and the South Shore Railroad, as well.
Lost Era, Welcome Reprise August 10, 2001
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
We will never see these lovely posters on the hoardings in Chicagoland or Northwestern Indiana, but this wonderful book does as much as is possible to capture the glory of that long-gone, pre-Depression advertising age. The articles are interesting to railway aficianados and help to put the artworks in their proper context, but the crowning glories of the book are the full-page reproductions of all the known surviving South Shore Line posters. Yes, it was a simpler time; and No, the artists were not on the forefront and fringes of experimentation. But the posters do not pretend to be anything other than what they are--railway advertising--and they are superb examples of that, comparing favorably with the contemporaneous works of the Big Four in Britain, who were themselves experiencing a Golden Age at the time. Now if only someone would do for North Shore Line posters what this book does for the Chicago, South Shore and South Bend Railway! Buy two copies: one for the shelf, and one to cannibalize for prints to frame. (I know, I know, the thought of cutting up a book was anathema to me at first, but the results were spectacular.)
Charming poster art June 21, 2000
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
"Moonlight in Duneland" is a wonderfully subtle exploration of a marriage between the golden age of advertising and twilight of passenger rail service in suburban Chicago and northwest Indiana. The Chicago South Shore and South Bend Railroad has served the region for about ninety years, but in the 1920s the once floundering commuter train became a sudden success due to the advertising campaign commissioned by new owner Samuel Insull. Intending to create a ridership for the line, the ad campaign showed sophisticated Chicagoans what wonderful scenery and activities waited for them a short ride east in Indiana. The lithographs reprinted on the pages of "Moonlight in Duneland" are wonderfully rendered in the style of such illustrators as Maxfield Parrish and the Prairie Deco artists of the day. Each poster illustrates one of the many activities in different seasons. One could see Notre Dame football in the fall; relax on the Lake Michigan beaches in the summer; or snow ski on the Dunes in winter. The pages are mainly full page reprints of the photos with just enough text in the front of the book for explanation. This book is very well made and the prints are very well reproduced. I recommend it to anyone, but fans of Art Deco design and railroad enthusiasts will enjoy it.
Awesome! September 24, 1999
3 out of 5 found this review helpful
A must-have coffee table book for anyone connected to N.W. Indiana. Living history in a medium long past.
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