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[Railway tunnel construction in Washington, D.C., near Union Station: 7 members of construction crew at bottom of drifts] – Vintage Print

[Railway tunnel construction in Washington, D.C., near Union Station: 7 members of construction crew at bottom of drifts], [between 1904 and 1905] — historic photograph
[Railway tunnel construction in Washington, D.C., near Union Station: 7 members of construction crew at bottom of drifts], [between 1904 and 1905]. 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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This rare historic photograph captures [Railway tunnel construction in Washington, D.C., near Union Station: 7 members of construction crew at bottom of drifts] in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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Seven members of a construction crew gather at the bottom of the drifts in this view of a railway tunnel being dug near Union Station in Washington. The picture is dated between 1904 and 1905, a period when the Pennsylvania Railroad was building tunnels beneath the city to bring trains into the new Union Station, which opened in 1907. Images like this one, from the C.K. Allen Collection, document the crews who did the underground work, though the caption card's details have not been verified.

Created / published[between 1904 and 1905]
Medium1 photographic print.
NotesC.K. Allen Collection. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Geogr.; RR; Construction.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,238 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-157593

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