Details
Title 34th Street [sic], entrance to University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pa. [graphic].
Date ca. 1910
Physical Description 2 photomechanical prints (postcards): photolithograph, color; 9 x 15 cm.(3.5 x 5.5 in.)
Description Depicts the Memorial Tower connecting the dormitories, constructed 1894-1911 after designs by Cope & Stewardson.
Notes Founded as a charity school in 1740 by Benjamin Franklin. Original school buildings located at 4th and Arch Streets, then moved into the Presidential Mansion at 9th and Chestnut Streets in 1802. The mansion was cleared away in 1829 and two larger university buildings were constructed. Expanded to a much larger West Philadelphia campus in 1875.
Divided back.
Accession numbers: P.9076.23 and P.9105.17.
Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Subject Monuments & memorials -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Towers -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Universities & colleges -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Spruce Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- 3700 block.
Genre Photomechanical prints -- Color -- 1900-1910.
Postcards -- 1900-1910.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| LCP postcards - Education - [various]
Accession number various
P.9105.17