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    Default Philadelphia Cemetery (Ronaldson's). 9th & Bainbridge Sts. c.1949

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    Enterance gate to Ronaldson's Cemetery looking from the inside out, 900 block of Bainbridge St.




    Exterior of gateway to Ronaldson's Cemetery


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    Default Front and Lombard Streets, Children in wading pool, 06-1925

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    Default Cascade Fountain outside Philadelphia Museum of Art

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    Default View down 13th Street towards Market Street



    View down 13th Street towards Market Street
    Signage for Marcus Bachrach & Co. Men's Fashion Shop on 13th Street.
    Original Notes Dentist Dr. A Reed 8N. 13th St. looking south towards Mkt./Wanamaker bldg in foreground
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    Default Businesses and pedestrians along 13th St. with the Wanamaker building on the right.

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    Default Snowy street ,Broad and Locust Streets , 03-06-1952




    Description Snow and slush piling up on Broad Street. Photo taken looking north from the Academy of Music.
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    Center City Gothic. A man sleeps in the sun while Betty Joyce Erb, of Fox Chase, is having her picture taken by her mother, Mrs. John Erb, at Broad and Locust Sts. after the Medical College of Pennsylvania's graduation ceremony at the Academy of Music this weekend." Philadelphia Evening Bulletin, Jun 5th, 1978.



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    Default S Philip St and Porter St. 2/11/1960

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    Default Exteriors: Moyamensing Prison. 11/1/1967




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    Default Pennypack Street and State Road - 1959

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    Default Torresdale Filter Plant – Pennypack St and State Rd - 1905

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    Default Philadelphia County Prison, Debtors' Wing, Reed Street & Passyunk Avenue, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, PA



    DETAIL OF CAST-IRON WINGED DISK OVER MAIN ENTRANCE - Philadelphia County Prison, Debtors' Wing, Reed Street & Passyunk Avenue, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, PA


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    Default John Bartram House & Garden, 54th Street & Lindbergh Boulevard,




    detail view, carved piece of doric entablature resting on top of stone retaining wall near its southwestern end. This piece of carved stone--like similar pieces used in the house's north shed and the south wall of the greenhouse--is a likely remnant of an architectural scheme pursued and later abandoned by john bartram, sr. The stone is not integral to the wall -
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    Default Phila. & Reading Terminal, June 13th, 1910.

    Willie Cohen, 1210 So. 6th St., 8 years of age, newsboy, attends John Hay School. Was selling papers at Phila. & Reading Terminal 10:30 A.M. Monday June 13th, Said it was Jewish Holiday. Max Rafalovizht, 1300 So. 6th St, 8 years old, attends John Hay School, was selling papers at Phila. & Reading Terminal, June 13th, 1910

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    Morris Goldberg (smallest boy), 316 Bainbridge St., age 7, newsboy sells from 2 P.M. to 6 P.M.; 2 P.M. to midnight on Saturday. This picture includes the 2 Mellitto boys. Edward F. Brown, Investigator. Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania


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    These boys were tossing and pitching pennies, on Sunday, June 12, 1910 at 3 P.M. Edward F. Brown, Investigator. Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania



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    From the Temple Univ. Urban Archives Site.. No location given but like many of the hundreds of alleys in Philadelphia, could have been Northern Liberties or south Philadelphia.. CONTENTdm Collection : Item Viewer

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    From the Temple Urban Archives site, A great photo of 233-235-237 north Second Street. Ca.1910. These buildings are gone now, being right in the way of the Ben Franklin Bridge to be built years later. CONTENTdm Collection : Item Viewer

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    From the Temple Univ. Urban Archives site: Identified as 8th and Fairmount, which is close, but is actually a northeast view at Franklin street and Fairmount Ave. Ca.1952 Showing the Ruby Theater at the corner. and three doors down the old Maennerchor Hall (with the white overhang sign). CONTENTdm Collection : Item Viewer
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    From the Temple Univ. Urban Archives site: East side of Franklin street, #609 Franklin, Ice Cream Box Factory. Ca.1923. All gone now..CONTENTdm Collection : Item Viewer

 

 

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