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[Pennsylvania Station, main waiting room, New York, N.Y.] – Historic Reproduction

[Pennsylvania Station, main waiting room, New York, N.Y.], [between 1905 and 1915] — historic photograph
[Pennsylvania Station, main waiting room, New York, N.Y.], [between 1905 and 1915]. 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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[Pennsylvania Station, main waiting room, New York, N.Y.] comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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Few interiors from the early twentieth century capture a public space as fully as this view of the main waiting room at Pennsylvania Station in New York. The station, designed by McKim, Mead & White, opened in 1910 as the Manhattan terminus of the Pennsylvania Railroad, and its vaulted hall, modeled loosely on the Baths of Caracalla, was among the largest and most admired rooms of its time. This 8 x 10 inch glass negative comes from the Detroit Publishing Company, whose photographers documented American cities and railroads for promotional use in the years before the First World War.

Created / published[between 1905 and 1915]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesTitle from jacket. G 7515" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 039793. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsRailroad stations. Waiting rooms.United States--New York (State)--New York.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 791 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-69283

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