Details
Creator Brightbill, George M., collector.
Contributor Furness, Evans & Co., architect.
Wilson Brothers & Co., architect.
Title Broad Street Station postcards. [graphic].
Date 1900-1930
Physical Description 60 photomechanical prints (postcards): photolithograph; 9 x 15 cm.(3.5 x 5.5 in.)
Description Contains exterior views of the Pennsylvania Railroad Station and train shed at the northwest corner of Broad and Market Streets. Station built 1879-1882 after designs by Wilson Brothers & Company and expanded by Furness, Evans & Co. from 1892 to 1894. Train shed constructed by Wilson Brothers & Company in 1894 and destroyed in 1923. Station demolished 1952-53.
Notes Contains 42 postcards printed in color and 18 printed in black and white.
Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Subject Railroad stations -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Market Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- 2970.
Genre Photomechanical prints -- Color -- 1900-1930.
Photomechanical prints -- 1900-1910.
Postcards -- 1900-1930.
Associated name Furness, Evans & Co., architect.
Associated name Wilson Brothers & Co., architect.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Brightbill postcards [Railroads - Broad Street Station - 143]
Accession number Brightbill 143
143-a01-a
143-a06-d