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Track level and concourses, Penn. [Pennsylvania] Station, New York, N.Y. – Historic Reproduction

Track level and concourses, Penn. [Pennsylvania] Station, New York, N.Y., c[between 1905 and 1915] — historic photograph
Track level and concourses, Penn. [Pennsylvania] Station, New York, N.Y., c[between 1905 and 1915]. Historic photograph from the New York City 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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Track level and concourses, Penn. [Pennsylvania] Station, New York, N.Y.. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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Track level and concourses, Penn. [Pennsylvania] Station, New York, N.Y.

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Few views of Pennsylvania Station capture its interior as plainly as this one, which turns the camera toward the track level and concourses rather than the grand facade on Seventh Avenue. The station opened in 1910 as the work of McKim, Mead & White, and its vast waiting rooms and stairways were designed to move crowds of commuters and long-distance travelers with a sense of order and light. Taken by the Detroit Publishing Company as an 8 x 10 inch glass negative sometime between 1905 and 1915, the picture preserves the building while it was new. Its wide view of the stairs and open floor shows the station's engineering ambitions and the scale of daily rail traffic in early twentieth-century Manhattan.

Created / publishedc[between 1905 and 1915]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesDetroit Publishing Co. no. 071936. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.
SubjectsConcourses. Railroad stations. Stairways.United States--New York (State)--New York.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 784 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-73093

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