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The commuters, Pennsylvania Station, Philadelphia / Pennell. – Historic Print

The commuters, Pennsylvania Station, Philadelphia / Pennell., 1919 — historic print
The commuters, Pennsylvania Station, Philadelphia / Pennell., 1919. Historic print from the New York City 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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Step back in time with The commuters, Pennsylvania Station, Philadelphia / Pennell., a historic print rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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Joseph Pennell turned his etching and drypoint needle on a crowd of commuters rather than on the building alone, which sets this sheet apart from the architectural views he is better known for. The catalog title names Philadelphia, but the subject headings place the scene in New York's Pennsylvania Station, the Beaux-Arts terminal that opened in 1910 and was demolished in the early 1960s. Dated 1919, the print captures the daily rush of travelers moving through the station's large waiting rooms and concourses in the years when it was one of the city's most celebrated public spaces. The pencil signature on the sheet adds to its interest for anyone studying Pennell's work.

Created / published1919
Medium1 print : etching and drypoint ; 25.4 x 30.5 cm.
GenreEtchings 1910-1920.
NotesSigned in pencil. Wuerth, 718 American prints in the Library of Congress : a catalog of the collection / compiled by Karen F. Beall.... Baltimore : Johns Hopkins Press, 1970, p. 347
SubjectsPennsylvania Station (New York, N.Y.)--1910-1920. Commuters--New York (State)--New York--1910-1920. Railroad stations--New York (State)--New York--1910-1920.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,448 × 1,155 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-219347

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