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Pennsylvania Railroad Station, New York City – Historic Print

Pennsylvania Railroad Station, New York City, c1910. — historic photograph
Pennsylvania Railroad Station, New York City, c1910.. 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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Pennsylvania Railroad Station, New York City. 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 Railroad Station, New York City

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Few buildings in New York changed the character of their streets as much as the Pennsylvania Railroad Station, which rose on Seventh Avenue between 31st and 33rd Streets around 1910. McKim, Mead & White designed it in the Beaux-Arts style, with a grand waiting room modeled on the Baths of Caracalla in Rome and a long colonnade across its facade. Its scale and its place at the center of rail travel into Manhattan made it a symbol of the city's confidence. The station's demolition in 1963 sparked a preservation movement that helped protect landmarks across the city.

Created / publishedc1910.
Medium1 photographic print.
SubjectsPhoto copyrighted by William Miller. No. 25959. No copyright renewal. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Photog. I.; NY--NYC--Views--1910; NY--NYC--P-; Geogr.; RR--Sta.; Ph. Ind.; Shelf.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,231 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-142559

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