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

[Pennsylvania Station, main waiting room from entrance to concourse, New York, N.Y.], [between 1905 and 1915] — historic photograph
[Pennsylvania Station, main waiting room from entrance to concourse, 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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This rare historic photograph captures [Pennsylvania Station, main waiting room from entrance to concourse, New York, N.Y.] in remarkable detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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[Pennsylvania Station, main waiting room from entrance to concourse, New York, N.Y.]

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Few American interiors from this era show the scale of ambition that went into Pennsylvania Station's main waiting room, and this view from the entrance toward the concourse captures it well. The photograph was made by the Detroit Publishing Company, whose photographers traveled widely between about 1900 and 1915 documenting cities, landscapes and buildings. The station, designed by McKim, Mead & White and opened in 1910, was built for the Pennsylvania Railroad as a grand gateway to Manhattan, and its vaulted spaces were meant to rival the great public buildings of Rome. Look at the scale of the room against the figures of travelers, a reminder of how the building was meant to make rail passengers feel.

Created / published[between 1905 and 1915]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesTitle from jacket. G 7511" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 039795. 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 scan808 × 980 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-69285

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