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[Union Station, Washington, D.C.: Bureau of Information in northwest corner of main waiting room] – Vintage Print

[Union Station, Washington, D.C.: Bureau of Information in northwest corner of main waiting room], [between 1900 and 1920(?)] — historic photograph
[Union Station, Washington, D.C.: Bureau of Information in northwest corner of main waiting room], [between 1900 and 1920(?)]. 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.: Bureau of Information in northwest corner of main waiting room], preserved in this historic photograph. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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[Union Station, Washington, D.C.: Bureau of Information in northwest corner of main waiting room]

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Tucked into the northwest corner of the main waiting room, this Bureau of Information was where travelers could ask about train times, connections and fares before boarding. Union Station opened in 1907 as a grand Beaux-Arts gateway designed by Daniel Burnham, and its waiting room, with soaring vaulted ceilings and marble floors, was built to impress as much as to shelter crowds. The photograph's date is uncertain, but it likely comes from the years just after the station opened, when rail travel was at its height. The scene shows how the building was meant to guide and reassure the many people who passed through it each day.

Created / published[between 1900 and 1920(?)]
Medium1 photographic print.
GenrePhotographic prints 1900-1920.
NotesNo. 6.
SubjectsUnion Station (Washington, D.C.)--Facilities--1900-1920. Interiors--Washington (D.C.)--1900-1920.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,183 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-163062

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