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Interior of Grand Central Depot, New York City – Vintage Print

Interior of Grand Central Depot, New York City — historic image
Interior of Grand Central Depot, New York City. Historic image from the New York City collection.

(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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This historic image of Interior of Grand Central Depot, New York City brings a moment of history to your wall. Drawn from the Snapshots of the Past archive, it is an authentic piece of documented history.

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Interior of Grand Central Depot, New York City

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Grand Central Depot, the station that stood on this site before the present terminal was built, was one of the busiest rail hubs in the country when this view was made. Its large, open train shed was designed to shelter locomotives and passengers from smoke and weather, and the photograph captures the scale of that single enclosed space with its arched roof and long platforms. By the late 19th century, the depot was handling a rapidly growing volume of commuter and long-distance traffic into Manhattan, which made it a symbol of the city's expansion. The building was later replaced by the terminal that still stands today, so images like this one now record a station that no longer exists in this form.

Original scan4,980 × 2,539 px · prints to 17 × 8 in at 300 dpi
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