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[Union Station, Washington, D.C.: Dining room] – Historic Print

[Union Station, Washington, D.C.: Dining room], [no date recorded on caption card] — historic photograph
[Union Station, Washington, D.C.: Dining room], [no date recorded on caption card]. 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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A window into the past: [Union Station, Washington, D.C.: Dining room], preserved in this historic photograph. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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Union Station in Washington, D.C., opened in 1907 as a grand rail terminal designed by Daniel Burnham, and its dining room was one of the spaces that made the building a showpiece of the city's travel life. This print shows that interior as a place built for long-distance passengers, who in the early twentieth century often waited hours between trains and ate in rooms like this one. The record carries no date, so the exact year the photograph was taken is uncertain, but the room's formal character reflects the station's original Beaux-Arts ambitions. Viewers may want to note the scale of the space and its furnishings, which speak to the era when rail travel was the nation's primary way to cross distances.

Created / published[no date recorded on caption card]
Medium1 photographic print.
NotesThis record contains unverified data from caption card.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,125 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-160675

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