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The Main Front, Union Station, Washington, D.C. – Historic Reproduction

The Main Front, Union Station, Washington, D.C. — historic print
The Main Front, Union Station, Washington, D.C.. Historic print 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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The Main Front, Union Station, Washington, D.C. comes to life in this historic print, 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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The Main Front, Union Station, Washington, D.C.

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The main front of Union Station, shown here, faces Massachusetts Avenue and was the public face of a building that opened in Washington in 1907. Daniel H. Burnham's firm designed the station in the Beaux-Arts style, with a monumental colonnade and classical proportions meant to make a rail terminal feel like a civic landmark. This halftone was reproduced in *The Inland Architect and News Record* in August 1908, when such printed plates let architects and readers study new buildings in fine detail. The magazine's coverage shows how closely the profession followed Washington's rebuilding under the City Beautiful movement.

Medium1 photomechanical print : halftone.
Notes1908
SubjectsIllus. in: The Inland Architect and News Record, 1908 August. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: DC, Wash.--Bldgs., Non-Govt.; D.C.--Wash.--Union Sta.; B.F.--Burnham; Architecture; Railroad stations; Shelf.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,206 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-134778

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