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Printing and Tickets
Standardization of Time
Price
New Leisure Activities
Effects of faster transportation
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printed train
tickets
Printed train tickets were a very important component to the railway system and help to symbolize the changes of society. A new style of life introduced the new standardization of time. Train tickets allowed access to specific destinations but required the rider to depart at one of the designated times.
printing
Printing allowed for mass production of pieces and increased accessibility of information.
mass
production/media
mass production in printing allowed for large numbers of reading materials such as books and newspapers
advertising
and logo
types
Brands each created a logotype that could be printed and mass produced. Many generated characters with whom to identify as well.
commercial
territory
As advertising started to take over every available surface, trains, trolleys and omnibuses provided opportunity advertisments to be displayed inside and out of cars inscribing public space.
symbolic currency of
social status
Train tickets symbolized the middle and upper classes that were able to ride the train system to go to and from the city and work.