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Interior of main waiting room, Southern Terminal Station, Boston, Mass. – Historic Print

Interior of main waiting room, Southern Terminal Station, Boston, Mass., c1899. — historic photograph
Interior of main waiting room, Southern Terminal Station, Boston, Mass., c1899.. Historic photograph from the Boston 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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Interior of main waiting room, Southern Terminal Station, Boston, Mass. 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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Interior of main waiting room, Southern Terminal Station, Boston, Mass.

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Few stations in Boston were as ambitious as the Southern Terminal, better known today as South Station. This interior of its main waiting room dates to about 1899, around the time the terminal opened to serve rail lines arriving from the south. The photograph was made by H.W. Weller of Boston, whose copyright credit appears on the caption card, and it shows a space built to hold large crowds moving between trains and the city. The open floor and the scale of the hall reflect how railroads of the period designed stations to handle heavy daily traffic.

Created / publishedc1899.
Medium1 photographic print.
SubjectsPhoto copyrighted by H.W. Weller, Boston, Mass. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Mass.--Boston--South Station; Railroads--Stations.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,213 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-141325

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