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Government Railway Station, Granada, Nicaragua, C. A. – Historic Print

Government Railway Station, Granada, Nicaragua, C. A., Meadville, Pa. : Keystone View Company, c1902. — stereograph
Government Railway Station, Granada, Nicaragua, C. A., Meadville, Pa. : Keystone View Company, c1902.. Stereograph from the Railroads & Depots 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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Step back in time with Government Railway Station, Granada, Nicaragua, C. A., a stereograph rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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Granada, on the shore of Lake Nicaragua, was one of the oldest Spanish colonial cities in the Americas, and this stereograph shows its government railway station in the early 1900s. Keystone View Company of Meadville, Pennsylvania, issued the card around 1902 as one of many views of distant places sold for use in a stereoscope, a parlor viewer that gave a three-dimensional effect from two nearly identical photographs. Railways of this period were often promoted as signs of a country's progress, linking inland cities to Pacific ports and trade routes. The station's architecture and the people gathered outside offer a glimpse of how travel and commerce looked in Central America at the time.

Created / publishedMeadville, Pa. : Keystone View Company, c1902.
GenreStereographs 1900-1910.
NotesH21101 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 12839. Copyright by B.L. Singley.
SubjectsRailroad stations--Nicaragua--Granada--1900-1910.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 737 px · prints to 5 × 2 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-169364

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