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[Union Station, Wash., D.C.: west end, showing erection of last steelwork in concourse roof] – Antique Print

[Union Station, Wash., D.C.: west end, showing erection of last steelwork in concourse roof], [ca. 1906] — historic photograph
[Union Station, Wash., D.C.: west end, showing erection of last steelwork in concourse roof], [ca. 1906]. Historic photograph from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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[Union Station, Wash., D.C.: west end, showing erection of last steelwork in concourse roof] comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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Few views of Washington's Union Station capture the building before it was finished quite like this one, which shows workers raising the last steel members of the concourse roof at the west end. Designed by Daniel Burnham and opened in 1907, the station was among the largest construction projects in the capital at the time, and its vast vaulted concourse was meant to impress arriving travelers with the scale of the new national railroad hub. The photograph, dating to about 1906, records the final stage of that work, when the enormous steel framework was being completed overhead. Notice the open framing and the figures at work, which give a sense of the labor behind the building's grand interior.

Created / published[ca. 1906]
Medium1 photographic print.
GenrePhotographic prints 1910-1910.
SubjectsUnion Station (Washington, D.C.)--1900-1910. Railroad stations--Washington (D.C.)--1900-1910. Building construction--Washington (D.C.)--1900-1910.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,014 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-163709

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