America's grandest railway terminal - Pennsylvania Railroad - new passenger station, Broad Street, Philadelphia, U.S.A. / Century Litho. Co. – Historic Photograph Print
![America's grandest railway terminal - Pennsylvania Railroad - new passenger station, Broad Street, Philadelphia, U.S.A. / Century Litho. Co., N.Y. : Miller & More, publishers, [1893] — vintage poster](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/8d/8d7f6aa857f7-L.webp)
(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: America's grandest railway terminal - Pennsylvania Railroad - new passenger station, Broad Street, Philadelphia, U.S.A. / Century Litho. Co., preserved in this vintage poster. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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America's grandest railway terminal - Pennsylvania Railroad - new passenger station, Broad Street, Philadelphia, U.S.A. / Century Litho. Co.
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A color lithograph from about 1893 presents the Pennsylvania Railroad's new passenger station on Broad Street in Philadelphia as "America's grandest railway terminal." The poster was printed by Century Litho. Co. for the New York publisher Miller & More, and its promotional tone reflects how railroads of the period competed for travelers by advertising their stations as symbols of civic pride and modern engineering. The Broad Street terminal served as a major gateway to the city during the rapid expansion of American rail travel in the late nineteenth century.
| Created / published | N.Y. : Miller & More, publishers, [1893] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : color. |
| Genre | Advertisements 1890-1900.Posters 1890-1900.Prints Color 1890-1900. |
| Subjects | Pennsylvania Railroad--Buildings--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--1890-1900. Railroad stations--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--1890-1900. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 976 × 1,018 px |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-217175 |
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