COLLECTION NAME:
Savannah Postcard Collection
Record
Title:
Union Station and West Broad Street, Savannah, Ga.
Description:
Color postcard with no border and divided back, postmarked May 9, 1911. The view shows Union Station on West Broad Street. The station, built between 1899 and 1901, was designed by Frank P. Milburn who designed a number of rail terminals, courthouses, and churches throughout the South. The Union Station building was in a Spanish Renaissance style and featured an octagonal rotunda measuring 80 feet in diameter which served as the general waiting room. The station was demolished in 1963 to provide room for the Interstate Highway 16 Interchange. The publisher of this postcard was F.M. Kirby of Wilkes-Barre, PA.
Subject:
Historic buildings
Publisher:
F.M. Kirby & Co.
Date:
1907-1913
Coverage:
Savannah (Ga.)
Coverage:
Georgia
Language:
English
Type:
Still Image
Extent:
3 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches
Format/Medium:
Postcards
Format/Medium:
Lithographs
Source:
Savannah Postcard Collection, MS 016, Jen Library Archives and Special Collections, Savannah College of Art and Design.
Rights:
Though this item is believed to be in the Public Domain, copyright may have been retained by the authors or creators of items in this collection, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.
