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[Bird's-eye view of Union Station, through window, Washington, D.C.] – Historic Map Reproduction

[Bird's-eye view of Union Station, through window, Washington, D.C.], [between 1910 and 1940(?)] — historic photograph
[Bird's-eye view of Union Station, through window, Washington, D.C.], [between 1910 and 1940(?)]. Historic photograph from the Washington DC 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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Seen from above and through a window, this view looks down on Union Station in Washington, D.C., where the curved fanlight shapes catch the eye. The station opened in 1907 as the capital's main rail gateway, designed by Daniel Burnham in the Beaux-Arts style and built by the Pennsylvania Railroad. Fanlights, the semicircular windows set over doors and entries, were a common feature of the period's public buildings. The picture's exact date is uncertain, somewhere between 1910 and 1940, but the steep vantage point turns an ordinary architectural detail into a pattern of arches and light.

Created / published[between 1910 and 1940(?)]
Medium1 photographic print.
GenrePhotographic prints 1910-1940.
SubjectsUnion Station (Washington, D.C.)--Buildings--1910-1940. Fanlights--Washington (D.C.)--1910-1940.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,171 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-162946

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