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How the wheels clank and rattle, and the tram-road shakes, as the train rushes on!
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How the wheels clank and rattle, and the tram-road shakes, as the train rushes on!
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How the wheels clank and rattle, and the tram-road shakes, as the train rushes on!

Artist Mary Petty (American, 1899 - 1976)
Date1947
ClassificationsDrawing
MediumCrayon and ink
Dimensions6 1/2 × 8 7/16 in.
Credit LineMary Petty and Alan Dunn Bequest
Object number1972.599
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House with a Shakes Roof, Rocky Bar, Idaho
House with a Shakes Roof, Rocky Bar, Idaho
Todd Webb
1950
No caption (tall grass stuck in trailer wheels)
No caption (tall grass stuck in trailer wheels)
Alan Dunn
1945
Peasants gathering rushes
Peasants gathering rushes
1904
Rushes and Barges
Rushes and Barges
Joseph Rajer
circa 1936 - 1942
Train and windswept trees in rain
Train and windswept trees in rain
Mary Petty
c 1933
Image Not Available for Sketch for Commission for Z. Frank Four Wheels, Inc., Chicago
Sketch for Commission for Z. Frank Four Wheels, Inc., Chicago
Richard Koppe
n.d.
The log-house...how often they returned in dreams!
The log-house...how often they returned in dreams!
Mary Petty
1947
No caption (Four figures in a train car)
No caption (Four figures in a train car)
Mary Petty
(29) book cover design, What Makes the Wheels Go Round- A Picture Book of Machinery by Boris Artzybasheff and George E. Bock
(29) book cover design, What Makes the Wheels Go Round- A Picture Book of Machinery by Boris Artzybasheff and George E. Bock
Boris Artzybasheff
no date
No caption (tree in bloom along country road)
No caption (tree in bloom along country road)
Mary Petty
c 1933
"Look how fast they go! I guess they're not a student tour like we are."
"Look how fast they go! I guess they're not a student tour like we are."
Mary Petty
1930
"A few years ago a contribution of a hundred thousand dollars would have been a cinch ...How's that for inflation?"
"A few years ago a contribution of a hundred thousand dollars would have been a cinch ...How's that for inflation?"
Mary Petty
1944
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