20th Century Milwaukee Transit Weekly Passes
Date
February 9th, 2022
Format
- website 69
- Illustration 429
- Program 84
Publishers
Techniques
- 4-color printing 53
- illustration 361
- printmaking 49
Locations Made
- United States 1045
- Wisconsin
The design of these weekly passes for Milwaukee’s Transit System was utilitarian and banal until the 1930s, when the system purchased indoor production value and added a few publicized elements on behalf of local events and to illustratively depict civic history. These weekly passes stood out as colorful and cohesive, consisting of large hand-drawn numbers for the week, lettering for the valid range of dates and small-print information set in type, merging into a decoration of jaunty banners, frames and rules.
1 set of 5 alternating weekly passes used for Milwaukee Transit with selected artifactual designs.
