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The Free Library of Philadelphia, N.E. corner Thirteenth and Locust Streets. [graphic].
Persistent link:
https://digital.librarycompany.org/islandora/object/digitool%3A96187
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Title
The Free Library of Philadelphia, N.E. corner Thirteenth and Locust Streets. [graphic].
Date
ca. 1910
Physical Description
1 photomechanical print (postcard): photolithograph; 9 x 15 cm.(3.5 x 5.5 in.)
Description
Exterior view of 13th Street front and south flank of library.
Notes
The Free Library system began in 1891. The first library occupied three rooms in City Hall in 1894. It moved to 1217-21 Chestnut Street in 1895, to the northeast corner of 13th and Locust Streets in 1910 and into its present site in 1927.
Postcard issued by William H. Rau, Philadelphia and the Albertype Co., Brooklyn, N.Y.
Divided back.
Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Subject
Libraries -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject
Thirteenth Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- South -- 200 block.
Genre
Photomechanical prints -- 1900-1910.
Postcards -- 1900-1910.
Printer
Rau, William Herman, 1855-1920, publisher.
Albertype Co., publisher.
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| LCP postcards - Libraries - [86754.D.2]
Accession number
86754.D.2
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