Details
Creator Brightbill, George M., collector.
Title Train entrance of the Philadelphia subway, Front & Arch Sts. [sic], Philadelphia, Pa. [graphic].
Date ca. 1914
Physical Description 1 photomechanical print (postcard): photolithograph, color; 9 x 15 cm.(3.5 x 5.5 in.)
Description Depicts the train entrance for the Market Street subway near Front and Market Streets looking west, showing a train emerging from underground about to loop around a steep incline to continue along Delaware Avenue. Also depicts commercial store fronts on the south side of Market Street.
Notes Numbered 302 on verso.
The Philadelphia Rapid Transit Company (PRT) built the Market Street subway - elevated from 15th Street to 69th Street in 1907. Construction expanding the line eastward to Delaware Avenue finished in 1908, but the elevated section connecting Frankford to the Center City line was not completed until 1922.
Sheet number: 158A01.
Divided back. Post marked 1914.
Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Subject Elevated railroads -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Mass transit -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Subways -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Market Street (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Genre Photomechanical prints -- Color -- 1910-1920.
Postcards -- 1910-1920.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Brightbill postcards [Transit - 158]
Accession number Brightbill 158
158-a01-d