Currently not on view
York, Railway Station,
ca. 1909
Francis Frith and Company, British, active 1859–1971
2008-63
The photographic firm Franics Frith and Company was created in large part due to the tremendous financial and cultural success of Frith’s travel photographs of the Middle East (an album of which is on view in this gallery). By employing techniques of mass production introduced during the Industrial Revolution, Frith created one of the first and largest commercial photographic enterprises, which remained in operation until 1971. This photograph of the newly built train station in York, England, taken by an unknown company photographer, departs from Frith’s romanticized views of ancient wonders to depict a new century’s embrace of urban growth and mechanization.
Information
Title
York, Railway Station
Dates
ca. 1909
Medium
Albumen print
Dimensions
19.1 × 29 cm (7 1/2 × 11 7/16 in.)
mount: 26 x 36.1 cm. (10 1/4 x 14 3/16 in.)
Credit Line
Museum purchase, anonymous gift
Object Number
2008-63
Place Depicted
Europe, England, York, York Railway Station
Culture
Techniques
- Joel Smith, "More than One: Sources of Serialism," in "More than One: Photographs in Sequence," special issue, Record of the Princeton University Art Museum 67 (2008): 8–29., p. 8
- "Acquisitions of the Princeton University Art Museum 2008," Record of the Princeton University Art Museum 68 (2009): p. 69-119., p. 103
