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[Interior view of Grand Central Terminal, New York, N.Y.] – Historic Photograph Print

[Interior view of Grand Central Terminal, New York, N.Y.], [between 1930 and 1950] — historic photograph
[Interior view of Grand Central Terminal, New York, N.Y.], [between 1930 and 1950]. 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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A window into the past: [Interior view of Grand Central Terminal, New York, N.Y.], 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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[Interior view of Grand Central Terminal, New York, N.Y.]

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Grand Central Terminal's main concourse is the subject here, a space that by the 1930s had already become one of the most recognizable public interiors in the country. The terminal opened in 1913 on a site rebuilt for the New York Central Railroad, and its vast waiting room, with tall arched windows, a great clock on the information booth, and a ceiling painted with a celestial map, was designed to move large crowds with a sense of order. This photograph, made sometime between 1930 and 1950, captures that period when commuter and long-distance rail travel was at its busiest. Its record gives no photographer's name, so the scene is best read as a document of the station's everyday life.

Created / published[between 1930 and 1950]
Medium1 photographic print.
GenrePhotographic prints 1930-1950.
SubjectsGrand Central Terminal (New York, N.Y.)--1930-1950. Railroad stations--New York (State)--New York--1930-1950.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,228 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-139231

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