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Across the waiting room, from the loggia, Penn[sylvania] Station, New York, N.Y. – Historic Reproduction

Across the waiting room, from the loggia, Penn[sylvania] Station, New York, N.Y., [between 1900 and 1920] — historic photograph
Across the waiting room, from the loggia, Penn[sylvania] Station, New York, N.Y., [between 1900 and 1920]. 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 Across the waiting room, from the loggia, Penn[sylvania] Station, New York, N.Y.. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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Across the waiting room, from the loggia, Penn[sylvania] Station, New York, N.Y.

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Seen from the loggia above the floor, the waiting room at Pennsylvania Station sprawls beneath its vaulted ceiling, a vantage that shows how the space was meant to be taken in. The station opened in 1910, designed by McKim, Mead & White, and its main waiting room, modeled on the Roman Baths of Caracalla, was built to make rail travel feel like a grand public occasion. Made as a glass negative sometime between 1900 and 1920, the photograph captures the building before its demolition in the early 1960s, a loss that helped spur the historic preservation movement in New York City.

Created / published[between 1900 and 1920]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesDetroit Publishing Co. no. 071929. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.
SubjectsRailroad stations. Waiting rooms.United States--New York (State)--New York.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 789 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-73088

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