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Title Progress of steel construction in Kensington Ave., Perspective of Kensington Ave. & Lehigh Ave., looking north, Oct. 23, 1916.
Date October 23, 1916
Description View looking north from the corner saloon at the southeast corner of Kensington and Lehigh Avenues at the construction of the elevated railway bridge spanning the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad tracks. Men stand around the construction scene on the sidewalks and on Lehigh Avenue. Includes an exterior view of the Port Richmond division of the Young Men's Christian Association, a three-and-a-half story brick building elevated above the street at the northwest corner of Kensington and Lehigh Avenues.
Notes Negative number: 3308
Genre Progress photographs 1910-1920
Gelatin silver prints 1910-1920
Subject Frankford Elevated Railway.
Philadelphia (Pa.). Dept. of City Transit.
Railroads, Elevated -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Construction -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Coverage Frankford (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Kensington Avenue (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- 2600 block.
Is part of Frankford Elevated Railway construction photographs
Frankford Elevated Railway construction photographs
Has format TMP.objres.5762.jpg
Accession number P.9260.241
Image file El-P-9260-241

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