R.R. Station, Beaver Dam, N.Y. 78.

R.R. Station, Beaver Dam, N.Y. 78.

A few railroad men, two sitting in a freight wagon, outside a passenger station in central New York state. Two freight cars, one labeled "NYC" for New York Central (Railroad) , stand on the tracks beside a gambrel-roofed freight house. This is one of a series of images made in upstate New York state by one of the three Eastern Illustrating & Publishing Company photographers assigned to New England or upstate New York. The glass plates would be sent back to Belfast, Maine, and processed into postcards at the printing plant on High Street. Here, in Beaver Dam, the Eastern photographer has crossed three sets of tracks to include the view of a rail siding leading off to the left, other railroad buildings, and the flat character of the local landscape. Signs of the station wall identify this as a Western Union and cable office, and American Express shipping. This is one of a series of images made in upstate New York state by one of the three Eastern Illustrating & Publishing Company photographers assigned to New England or upstate New York. The glass plates would be sent back to Belfast, Maine, and processed into postcards at the plant on High Street. The building is a standard passenger station in its basic form, but embellished with a tile roof whose overhangs are supported with large, curved brackets, and detailed with rafter tails that have been rounded off to create an ornamental pattern The plane of the roof is broken up by an eyebrow dormer, also featuring the rounded rafter tails.