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[Front facade, new Union Station, Washington, D.C.] – Historic Print

[Front facade, new Union Station, Washington, D.C.], [between 1905 and 1915] — historic photograph
[Front facade, new Union Station, Washington, D.C.], [between 1905 and 1915]. 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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A window into the past: [Front facade, new Union Station, Washington, D.C.], preserved in this historic photograph. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.

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[Front facade, new Union Station, Washington, D.C.]

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Built by the Pennsylvania Railroad and opened in 1907, this view shows the front of Washington's Union Station, the grand Beaux-Arts terminal designed by Daniel Burnham's firm to serve the capital's rail traffic. Its monumental granite facade and colonnaded entrance were meant to make the building a civic landmark as much as a transportation hub. The negative is an 8 x 10 inch glass plate from the Detroit Publishing Company, a firm that documented American towns, railroads and scenery in the years before and after 1900, so the picture captures the station in its early life.

Created / published[between 1905 and 1915]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesTitle from jacket. G 8092" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 039992. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsRailroad stations.United States--District of Columbia--Washington (D.C.)
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 796 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-69389

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