A View of Dresden Train Station

A View of Dresden Train Station

Dresden Hauptbahnhof,
Dresden, Germany
Train Station
Public Transportation--1900-1908
Ernst Giese Architecture
Paul Wiedner Architecture
Gerbruder Schehel Publishing

1 photographic postcard recto and verso,

A City View of the Dresden Hauptbahnhof, and surrounding city.

Ernst Giese and Paul Wiedner

Originally completed in 1897 by Ernst Giese and Paul Wiedner, this station is one of the main railroad hubs in Dresden, Germany and is still in use today.

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Postmarked: 9/10/1908 & London:12/26/09

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Photographic postcard with undivided back, 3.5 x 5.5. in.

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Originally completed in 1897 by Ernst Giese and Paul Wiedner, this station connected Dresden to Berlin, and supported the industrialization of Germany at the beginning of the twentieth century.

Inscription on recto:

September 9, 08',
I can't wait to tell you how suprised and disappointed we were not to find you here when we reached Dresden a few days ago. We miss you very much but supposed you are all glad to get home. Maria is not very well but she saids to lobrahlous and is going to write to your mother soon. Love from all. Nina/

For more infomation, see http://www.bahnhof.de/bahnhof-de/start/#station/17814.

Original Collection passed from Gertrude Kinnear to her sister Luree Jobe to her daughter Eleanor Jobe, who left it to her niece Elizabeth A. Mealy who left it to her granddaughter Caitlin Mealy.

For rights and permissions, please contact Caitlin Mealy, catydids515@gmail.com.

Dresden, Germany

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