Signal Tower, Pennsylvania Station, New York City – Vintage Print
(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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Signal Tower, Pennsylvania Station, New York City comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Signal Tower, Pennsylvania Station, New York City
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A signal tower rising above the tracks at Pennsylvania Station marks this view as a working piece of the railroad rather than a portrait of the building itself. The Pennsylvania Railroad's New York terminal opened in 1910, and its tracks ran through tunnels under the Hudson River and beneath Manhattan, so the signaling that routed trains through the yards was central to daily operations. The Pennsylvania Railroad made the photograph, which was taken sometime between 1917 and 1941 according to the catalog record, a period when the station handled heavy commuter and long-distance traffic. The record's date and details are unverified, so the tower's exact role at the time of the picture is worth confirming in the source.
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
|---|---|
| Notes | [between 1917 and 1941] |
| Subjects | Photo by Pennsylvania Railroad. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Railroads--1917-41; Railroads--Stations; Railroads--Cuts & tracks; NY--NYC--Bldgs.; Shelf. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,225 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-133475 |
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