Details
Creator Brightbill, George M., collector.
Title West Philadelphia Station postcards. [graphic].
Date 1910-1920
Physical Description 3 photomechanical prints (postcards): photolithograph, color; 9 x 15 cm.(3.5 x 5.5 in.)
Description Contains images of the Pennsylvania Railroad's West Philadelphia Station built in 1893 before the construction of 30th Street Station. Includes exterior views of the old station, a proposed, unexecuted station and a view of the railroad yards.
Notes The West Philadelphia Station should not be confused with the Pennsylvania Railroad station erected at 32nd and Market Streets in 1876 to accommodate large crowds visiting the Centennial Exhibition. The station erected in 1876 was further west of the West Philadelphia Station.
Sheet numbers: 145A01 and 145A02.
Divided backs.
Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Subject Railroad shops & yards -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Railroad stations -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Market Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- 3100 block.
Genre Photomechanical prints -- Color -- 1910-1920.
Postcards -- 1910-1920.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Brightbill postcards [Railroads - Miscellaneous - 145]
Accession number Brightbill 145
145-a01-a
145-a02-a