Plans for the new terminal station of the New York Central Railroad at Forty-second Street
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Title
Plans for the new terminal station of the New York Central Railroad at Forty-second Street
Collection
Wallach Division Picture Collection
New York City -- Railroad Stations -- Grand Central
Names
Schell, Frank Cresson, 1857-1942 (Artist)
Date / Origin
Date Issued: 1905
Library Location
The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection
Shelf locator: PC NEW YC-Rai-GC
Subjects
Grand Central Terminal (New York, N.Y.)
Interiors -- New York (State) -- New York
Railroad stations -- New York (State) -- New York
Railroads -- New York (State) -- New York
Subways -- New York (State) -- New York
Vaults (Architecture) -- New York (State) -- New York
Concourses -- New York (State) -- New York
Genres
Notes
Content: Printed on border: "The new terminal of the New York Central Railroad in New York City, the plans for which have just been made public, will when completed cover an area of more than nineteen blocks between Forty-second and Fifty-seventh Streets and Madison and Lexington avenues. The station proper will front on Forty-second Street, and, with the post-office and express buildings, will extend to Forty-fifth Street. The drawing shows a sectional view of the station as follows: A-Ticket lobby, ninety by three hundred feet ; B-Concourse on the express-track level; C-Waiting-room; D-Concourse for suburban trains; E-Restaurant; F-Suburban loop and tracks; G-Entrance to New York Subway.
Source Note: Harper's weekly : a journal of civilization. (New York : Harper' s Weekly Co., 1857-1916).
Physical Description
Extent: 1 print : b ; 19 x 25 cm. (7 1/2 x 9 3/4 in.)
Identifiers
NYPL Catalog ID (bnumber): b17096636
Barcode: 33333159173026
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): a4a52190-c55f-012f-dea8-58d385a7bc34
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Date Issued
1905
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The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection, The New York Public Library. "Plans for the new terminal station of the New York Central Railroad at Forty-second Street" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1905. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/a4a52190-c55f-012f-dea8-58d385a7bc34
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The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection, The New York Public Library. (1905). Plans for the new terminal station of the New York Central Railroad at Forty-second Street Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/a4a52190-c55f-012f-dea8-58d385a7bc34
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The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection, The New York Public Library. "Plans for the new terminal station of the New York Central Railroad at Forty-second Street" New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed November 13, 2025. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/a4a52190-c55f-012f-dea8-58d385a7bc34
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