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Union Station, Washington, D.C. – Historic Reproduction

Union Station, Washington, D.C. — historic photograph
Union Station, Washington, D.C.. 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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Union Station, Washington, D.C.. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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Union Station, Washington, D.C.

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Union Station, the Beaux-Arts rail terminal Daniel Burnham designed and that opened in 1907, is the focus here, with the station's grand facade and surrounding street setting. The caption card's index terms point to street railways, which suggests the scene may include the tracks and traffic that ran past the station's front plaza. Hirst Milhollen's photograph, dated around 1947, captures the building in the years when rail travel was still central to Washington's daily life. The date is approximate and the attribution comes from an older record, so details of the scene are worth checking against the original catalog entry.

Medium1 photographic print.
Notesca. 1947.
SubjectsPhoto by Hirst Milhollen. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Photog. Index; Street-railroads--ca. 1947; DC, Wash.--Bldgs., Non-Govt.; Shelf.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,158 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-134234

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