Busy maritime traffic on the North River in 1898.
West Street in Manhattan.
An 1880 illustration of Haskins’s tunnel project.
Alexander J. Cassatt as a young man.
Thomas A. Scott, president of the Pennsylvania Railroad, 1874–1880.
The torched Pittsburgh PRR yards after the 1877 Railroad Riot.
Alexander Cassatt riding at Cheswold.
The PRR’s Philadelphia Broad Street Station.
PRR President Frank Thomson, 1897–1899.
Samuel Rea as a young PRR employee.
George B. Roberts, president of the Pennsylvania Railroad, 1880–1897.
Ferryboat plying the North River.
Gustav Lindenthal’s North River Bridge design in 1890.
The Gare du Quai d’Orsay.
New York saloon at the turn of the century.
New York night life in the Gilded Age.
New York Democratic boss William Croker.
New York Republican boss Thomas Platt.
The route of the PRR’s North River tunnels.
Board of Directors of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company.
New York mayor Seth Low, November 5, 1901.
Newspaper publisher William Randolph Hearst in 1904.
A political cartoon about the tunnel franchise fight.
The Board of Engineers.
Schematic drawing of the two PRR tunnels under the North River.
Architect Charles Follen McKim of McKim, Mead & White.
Stanford White.
House wrecking on 32nd Street.
The cleared site of Pennsylvania Station looking east.
Little locomotive hauling cars full of station site debris.
Assistant engineer James Forgie stands in the center of the Greathead shield.
Tunnel showing Hudson River silt.
View of South Tunnels.
Penn Station site, and Ninth Avenue and the Elevated.
PRR President Alexander Cassatt (center) on an inspection tour.
Alfred Noble, Charles Jacobs, Charles Raymond.
The aligning of the North River tunnels.
Manhattan skyline, 1908.
A May 7, 1908, Harper’s Weekly illustration of the Ninth Avenue Elevated.
The PRR tunnel route from New Jersey to Long Island.
The construction of Penn Station in October 1908.
Penn Station’s General Waiting Room looking north.
Penn Station’s concourse in 1911.
The memorial statue of Alexander Cassatt in Penn Station.
Penn Station just before it opened in 1910.
Penn Station, incoming train.
Samuel Rea and Gustav Lindenthal.
The Hotel Pennsylvania.
The General Waiting Room in 1930.
The statue of Day in the Meadowlands.