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[Train in Railroad Station, Williamstown, Mass.] – Antique Print

[Train in Railroad Station, Williamstown, Mass.] — historic photograph
[Train in Railroad Station, Williamstown, Mass.]. Historic photograph from the Railroads & Depots 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: [Train in Railroad Station, Williamstown, Mass.], preserved in this historic photograph. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.

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[Train in Railroad Station, Williamstown, Mass.]

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The title places this view at the railroad station in Williamstown, Massachusetts, a hilltop college town in the northern Berkshires. Its caption card gives no date, so the exact year is unknown. Railroads reached the Berkshires in the mid-19th century and reshaped towns like this one, bringing mail, freight, summer visitors, and students to stations that often served as a town's social center. Photographs of small-town depots from this period usually show the locomotive, platform, and waiting passengers, which makes them useful for studying how rail travel fit into everyday life in rural New England.

Medium1 photographic print.
Notes[no date recorded on caption card]
SubjectsThis record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Mass.; RR--Stations--Massachusetts; Shelf.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan2,095 × 1,500 px · prints to 7 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-129270

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