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- Etching, "The Valley of Work," Monongahela River Valley, Homestead, Pennsylvania, 1923 - Industrial designer Otto Kuhler's etchings of begrimed industry sprang from an optimistic response to technology. This gritty, smoke-plumed landscape is Homestead, Pennsylvania, whose steel mills led to the creation of such structures as the George Washington Bridge. The same optimism led to Kuhler's colorful streamlined designs for the Milwaukee, Lehigh, and other railroads in the 1930s.
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Etching, "The Valley of Work," Monongahela River Valley, Homestead, Pennsylvania, 1923
Industrial designer Otto Kuhler's etchings of begrimed industry sprang from an optimistic response to technology. This gritty, smoke-plumed landscape is Homestead, Pennsylvania, whose steel mills led to the creation of such structures as the George Washington Bridge. The same optimism led to Kuhler's colorful streamlined designs for the Milwaukee, Lehigh, and other railroads in the 1930s.