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[Pennsylvania Station, main waiting room, New York, N.Y.] – Vintage Print

[Pennsylvania Station, main waiting room, New York, N.Y.], [between 1905 and 1915] — historic photograph
[Pennsylvania Station, main waiting room, New York, N.Y.], [between 1905 and 1915]. Historic photograph from the New York City 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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A window into the past: [Pennsylvania Station, main waiting room, New York, N.Y.], preserved in this historic photograph. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.

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Few interiors from the early twentieth century capture the scale of Pennsylvania Station's main waiting room quite like this one. The glass-plate negative was made between 1905 and 1915 by the Detroit Publishing Company, whose photographers traveled widely to document American towns, rail lines and landmarks for commercial sale. The McKim, Mead & White station opened in 1910 on the West Side of Manhattan, and its waiting room, modeled on the Baths of Caracalla, was among the largest enclosed public spaces of its day, with a vaulted ceiling and granite columns that dwarfed the travelers below.

Created / published[between 1905 and 1915]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesTitle from jacket. G 7516" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 039794. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsRailroad stations. Waiting rooms.United States--New York (State)--New York.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 791 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-69284

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