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Grand Central Station – Historic Print

Grand Central Station, n/a — historic photograph
Grand Central Station, n/a. Historic photograph from the Railroads & Depots 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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Grand Central Station comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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Grand Central Station

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This glass negative records Grand Central, the New York rail hub whose name the caption gives, though the record notes that the title comes from unverified data supplied by the Bain News Service. The terminal that stands in Midtown today opened in 1913, replacing an older depot on the same site, and its Beaux-Arts design and concourse made it one of the city's best-known public spaces. The Bain News Service was a working press agency, so its images were made to be sold and reproduced in newspapers and magazines. Glass plates of this size were common in that era and give a sharp view of the building's architecture and the crowds it drew.

Created / publishedn/a
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreGlass negatives.
NotesForms 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.
SourceLibrary of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection
Original scan7,004 × 5,468 px · prints to 23 × 18 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-BNN-3078

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