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Main concourse, looking south, Grand Central Terminal, New York – Historic Reproduction

Main concourse, looking south, Grand Central Terminal, New York, [between 1900 and 1915] — historic photograph
Main concourse, looking south, Grand Central Terminal, New York, [between 1900 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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Main concourse, looking south, Grand Central Terminal, New York

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Grand Central Terminal's main concourse, photographed looking south, shows the station's vast interior as it was in its first decade and a half of service, before the 1913 opening that is usually cited as the building's completion. The Detroit Publishing Company, which specialized in color-tinted views and large-format scenes of American places, made this glass-plate negative on a camera of the sort that could capture the full width of such a hall. The original Beaux-Arts building, designed by Reed and Stem and Warren and Wetmore, was built to separate suburban commuters from the lines of trains beneath, and its concourse was meant to impress arriving travelers with its scale and light.

Created / published[between 1900 and 1915]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesNo. 10" and "extra" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 500678. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsRailroad stations. Concourses.United States--New York (State)--New York.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 786 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-74936

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