[Newport News, Virginia, railroad station, with clock tower] – Vintage Wall Art
![[Newport News, Virginia, railroad station, with clock tower], [between 1905 and 1915] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/d9/d92ac6425475-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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Step back in time with [Newport News, Virginia, railroad station, with clock tower], a historic photograph rich in period detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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[Newport News, Virginia, railroad station, with clock tower]
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Few towns in Tidewater Virginia owed as much to the railroad as Newport News, and this view of its station, with a clock tower rising above the platform, shows how central rail travel was to the community. The photograph dates from roughly 1905 to 1915, a period when the city was growing quickly around its deepwater harbor, its coal piers, and the shipyard that had opened in the late 1880s. Stations like this one were the public face of a rail line, where travelers, freight workers, and townspeople passed through every day. The clock tower is worth a second look, since such towers were common civic landmarks that kept schedules visible to the whole town.
| Created / published | [between 1905 and 1915] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Genre | Photographic prints 1900-1920. |
| Subjects | Railroad stations--Virginia--Newport News--1900-1920. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,000 × 2,414 px · prints to 10 × 8 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-189685 |
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