Pennsylvania Railroad Station, in construction, New York – Antique Wall Art
(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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Pennsylvania Railroad Station, in construction, New York. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Pennsylvania Railroad Station, in construction, New York
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Few stations in America were as ambitious as the Pennsylvania Railroad's New York terminal, and this October 1908 view shows it still rising on its Manhattan site. Designed by the firm McKim, Mead & White, the station was built to carry trains under the Hudson River into the heart of the city, and it opened in 1910. Its classical colonnade and vaulted waiting room made it a landmark, and its demolition in 1963 later helped spark the historic preservation movement.
| 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 | 5,803 × 4,235 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-3568 |
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