Carl Rakeman artwork list

Available for download online at purl.fcla.edu

Summary: This appears to be associated with the "Highways of History" project, which included original artwork by artist, Carl Rakeman, accompanying text by Albert C. Rose, maps and photographs from the U.S. Dept. of Commerce and the Bureau of Public Roads. The project described a chronology of key events in American transportation from 1539 through 1945. In 1976, 109 of Rakeman's paintings (painted between 1921 to 1952) along with Rose's explanatory text were reproduced in a book entitled Historic American Roads.

1539 - The Coming of the Horse --
1540 - Coronado in New Mexico --
1565 - Saint Augustine --
1607 - The Indian Canoe --
1611 - The First American Brigade --
1612 - The Great Sauk Trail --
1625 - Paved Streets in Maine --
1632 - First Highway Law --
1636 - The Connecticut Path --
1673 - Colonial Post Rider --
1679 - The Portage Path --
1700 - The Iroquois Trail --
1751 - The Pennsylvania Road --
1753 - Washington Crossing The Allegheny --
1755 - Braddock's Road --
1760 - The Tobacco-Rolling Road --
1763 - The Boston Post Road --
1766 - The Flying Machine --
1769 - San Diego, California --
1774 - The Wilderness Road --
1794 - The Whiskey Rebellion --
1795 - The Philadelphia and Lancaster Turnpike Road --
1797 - Zane's Trace --
1802 - The Catskill Turnpike --
1804 - Oliver Evan's Amphibious Digger --
1806 - Lewis and Clark at Fort Clatsop --
1808 - Gallatin's Road and Canal Report --
1809 - The Natchez Trace --
1810 -The "Team-Boat" Ferry --
1814 - Growth of Coastwise Travel --
1816 - First State Board of Public Works --
1819 - The "Hobby-Horse" Bicycle --
1820 -Doctor and Circuit Rider --
1820 - General Jackson's Military Road --
1822 - The Santa Fe Trail --
1823 - First American Macadam Road --
1825 - The Erie Canal --
1826 - The Michigan Road --
1827 - The Northwestern Turnpike --
1830 - The Iron Horse Wins --
1830 - The Maysville Turnpike --
1836 - The New England Town Hall --
1836 - The County Courthouse --
1836 - The Deserted Village --
1836 - The Parish Church --
1836 - El Camino Real --
1839 - Our First Iron Bridge --
1840 - Shenandoah Valley Turnpike --
1840 - The National Pike --
1843 - The Oregon Trail --
1844 - Red River Ox Carts --
1846 - The Plank Road Craze --
1847 - Rational Truss-Bridge Design --
1850 - "Dark Ages" of the Road --
1855 - The Isthmus of Panama Railroad --
1856 - Mormon Hand-Cart Emigrants --
1857 - The Camel Express --
1858 - Butterfield's Overland Mail --
1858 - Blake's "Stone-Breaker" --
1859 - Mississippi River Steamboats --
1860 - The Pony Express --
1862 - The Mullan Road --
1864 - The Bozeman Trail --
1866 - Dudgeon's Steam Carriage --
1866 - The "The Boneshaker" --
1869 - The Steam Road Roller --
1869 - The Meeting of the Rails --
1871 - The Chisholm Cattle Trail --
1872 - The "Ordinary" Bicycle --
1880 - Working Out the Road Tax --
1885 - The "Safety" Bicycle --
1889 - Sand-Clay Roads --
1892 - First State-Aid Road New Jersey --
1892 - Bicycling Days --
1893 - First Brick Rural Road --
1893 - The Office of Road Inquiry --
1893 - First American Automobile --
1896 - Rural Free Delivery --
1897 - First Object-Lesson Road --
1898 - The Dust Nuisance --
1900 - The Horseless Carriage --
1903 - First Transcontinental Automobile Trip --
1905 - Coal Tar and Crude Oil Experiments --
1906 - Bituminous Macadam Experiments --
1909 - Rural Concrete Roads --
1911 - The Motor Pathfinders --
1913 - First Post-Road Project --
1915 - Mitchell's Point Tunnel --
1916 - The State Line --
1918 - First Federal-Aid Road --
1920 - The Consolidated Rural School --
1920 - Field Subgrade Soil Studies --
1920 - Beginnings of Highway Research --
1921 - Pneumatic Tire Impact Tests --
1921 - The Appalachian Trail --
1922 - Snow Removal --
1925 - Adoption of Uniform Signs --
1928 - The Inter-American Highway --
1933 - Roads to Serve the Land --
1934 - Railroad Crossings Bridged --
1935 - Viaducts in Cities --
1936 - Roadside Beauty Restored --
1938 - City Entrances and Belt Lines --
1939 - A Highway Masterpiece --
1941 - National Defense Roads --
1943 - The Alaska Highway --
1945 - Urban Depressed Express Highway
1945 - A Rural Interstate Highway