America's grandest railway terminal - Pennsylvania Railroad - new passenger station, Broad Street, Philadelphia, U.S.A. / Century Litho. Co. – Vintage Wall Art
![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/b9/b95b18088346-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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Broad Street Station, the Pennsylvania Railroad's passenger terminal in Philadelphia, is the subject here, and the poster's title makes a bold claim for it: "America's grandest railway terminal." The color lithograph was printed by the Century Litho. Co. for the New York publishers Miller & More around 1893, when railroads competed hard for travelers and handsome stations were a way to win their loyalty. The station opened in 1881 and served the company's main line into the city. The poster is as much a piece of promotion as a picture of a building, so it is worth reading the imagery and the boast together.
| 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 | 3,000 × 3,121 px · prints to 10 × 10 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-172671 |
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