Pennsylvania Railroad Station, in construction, New York – Historic Reproduction
(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 Railroad Station, in construction, New York, preserved in this historic photograph. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Pennsylvania Railroad Station, in construction, New York
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Photographed in October 1908, this view captures the Pennsylvania Railroad Station in New York while construction was still underway. The architects McKim, Mead & White designed it as a granite and marble Beaux-Arts terminal, and the railroad's tunnels under the Hudson River were built to bring trains into Manhattan. The station opened in 1910 and was demolished in the 1960s, which makes construction-stage pictures like this one a record of a building now gone. The glass negative belongs to the George Grantham Bain Collection, and its title comes from caption data that has not been fully verified.
| Created / published | Oct. 1908. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller. |
| Genre | Glass negatives. |
| Notes | Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. Temp. note: Batch one loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 5,785 × 4,260 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-3567 |
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