trjkv:^ (S LI APSES OF PHILADELPHIA 9 FIFTY GLIMPSES OF PHILADELPHIA AND VICINITY. REPRODUCED FROM RECEXT PHOTOGRAPHS, CHICAGO AND NEW YORK: RAND, McNALLY & CO., PUBLISHERS. 1900. u . 64843 Copyright, 1S95, by Rand, MuNally &: Co. Copyright, iSgS, by Rand. ]\IcNally & Co. Copyright, 1S99, by Rand, McNally & Co. Copyright, 1900, l)y Rand, McXally &• Co. Library sf Conqr»« Two COhES RECEIVEi JUN 25 1900 ..^, /SJfif SECOMB corv. OROLR Division, _1UL_7190U MARKET STREET, LOOKING WEST FROM TENTH STREET. 3 rj^\ --wajntrS^. C^ t. i.m CHRIST CHURCH. Second, near Market Street. UNITED GAS IMPROVEMENT CO.'S BUILDING. Broad and Arch Streets. I. I H Pi <; u CONSULTATION ROOM, SUPREME COURT, CITV HALL, 10 MAYOR'S OFFICE, CITY HALL. II r-y- lam iim^ jam jmm lamlitn ';/:// -*f^ ' ■"jf*^/> /^'- /^ -3^' ■'**■ /-f . y.'t ■ A— ■y.'s--- .'■ t.-\t"\\v:\\t •. \t \v«\\v At-. tr rr ,: rr ^•- \^„ . t o ;^, aJ y. s y. "h " c y. - o t; ^ I < I a « Q O M [^WMiKmixu,ct" "* * «i4 i: PHILADELPHIA BOURSE. Fourlli and Fifth Stixtts, between Chestnut and Market. WEIGHTMAN BUILDING. Chestnut Street, near Fifteenth Street. WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION. Southwest Corner Eighteenth and Arch Streets. YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION. Southeast Corner Chestnut and Fifteenth Streets. 15 ^ u o H l-J W H THE UNITED STATES MINT— N. W. Corner Chestnut and Juniper Streets. 17 -. '■'"^s -'■^' INDEPENDENCE HALL. Chestnut, between Fifth anJ Sixth Streets. L\Dl.l'l.;Ni>l-,.\i I. ilALL, FROM INDEPENDENCE SQUARE. l3 THE BANQUET ROOM, INDEPENDENX'E HALL, 20 ROOM IN WHICH DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE WAS ADOPTED, INDEPENDENCE HALL. 21 o o f ••JC5?J 4/-^ 1 — r fl^'^fiWri^Ww?^ —' ■ ^ '--'-7 r ; - ^ ^ ■ - ^ f ■ ■ f jt- JT ■ * ' |;^ S: ' r ^i-' iiiiil POST OFFICE — Chestnut, Market, and Ninth Streets. 24 STATUE OF BENJAMIN FRANKLIN — Post Office. STATUE OF STEPHEN GIRARD — Cuy llai t If flu i ^1 MERCANTILE CLUB-Norlh Broad Street, near Master Street. 26 CATHEDRAL OF ST. PETER AND ST. PAUL. UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA — Thirty-fourth Street, near Pine Street. 30 INTERIOR BETHANY CHURCH — Corner Twenty-second and Bainbridge Streets. IJREXEL INSTITUTE — Corner Chestnut and Thirty-sccoiul Strrets. 3:: CENTRAL UK. ,. 1 AND STAIRWAYS, DREXEL i^;;^TlTL•TK 33 ■J i J o "M ->" >*i V '/*■'■< .^.•.5*"''!*ir^ ^ :»fcia64aii. Vi^giAgii-^ t^ywiLA;^*^ . ..ito#:.-4»f -^'ut^att^ t ii l > > i Mtit i.-ii il! :iMf »■ ajKit^iiiai CUB MOUSE. LADIES' CLUH HOUSE. JUNIUK ri.li; IIOLSI.. GERMANTOWN CRICKET CLUB GROUNDS — Manheim. t.KA.Nl' S I ANIi. 36 LAUNCHING A SHIP IN CRAxMPS SHIPYARU — Beach and Palmer Streets. 37 w 'A ■ri A < ►J w .3 -i^, ■f. 'X. J ">— ^*^^2^R J f =-— - - f Hr -J mm-t: 'fs ■ 1 _ K krM- «rf^ fS* MB S^ ^^^ V^Jtsg ^^1 V^^P ^^ Y^A * . a 7 v\i^ '•^ 1 i ,JWIi 1 "^ ^^ 1 „^^afesa L"^! i 1 ' \\ V iv Wm' o Pi < O 5 ENTRANCE TO ZOOLOGICAL GARDEN -Girard Avenue. 42 RIVER DRIVE, FAIRMOUNT PARK — Above Columbia Bridge. 43 I-MIJI..^ M( IN LMKN I mim;kal m'Kinl;. THE RIVER DRIVE, KAIRMOUNT PARK. 44 STEAMBOAT LAXDIXG. FAIRMOUXT PARK, 45 I? ■i5^i-^-?.*!t&-:-^.^it^--^^'-:^ -^f^""--'-'^'-^:^' ^-^^fMigf;'^" ^"'^^^f'^' iS^^-i^- A ^:':::--L r'^i -r'^-^K ^iC^j^ /:.'.;> zr3* ./: LILY POND, FA:r.:,:OUNT PARK. 46 STATUE OF RELUUorS LIBERTY, FAIR.MOUNT PARK. 47 ^ THE WASHINGTON MONUMENT — Green Street Entrance U, Fairmount Park. 4S FLOWER BEDS, FAIRMOUNT PARK. 40 BOAT-HOUSES, FAIRMOUNT PARK. 50 A VIEW OF THE SCHUYLKILL RIVER FROM FAIRMOUXT PARK SI ON THE WISSAHICKOX. 52 VIEW NEAR DEVIL'S POOL, WISSAHICKON PARK 53 * t \..rfC STRAWBERRY HILL BRIDGE. 55 lUTJ 251900 TABLE OF CONTENTS. Page. Academy of Fine Arts ... S Art Club s Benjamin Franklin, Statue of 25 Bethany Church, Interior -ji Boat Houses, Fairmount Park 50 Broad Street, looking South from City Hall 7 Broad Street Station ... 13 Cathedral of St. Peter and St. Paul 27, 2.S Chestnut Street, looking West from Ninth Street .... 12 Chew ^Mansion .jo Christ Church .... 6 Church of St. James the Greater, Interior 29 City Hall r, City Hall, Consultation Room. Supreme Court .10 City Hall, ^layor's Office ...... 11 Convention Hall ... 2-; Cramjj's Shipyard ... ^7 Custom House ... 16 Drexel Institute Dre.xel, Residence of A. J., Jr Drexel, Residence of G. W. C ...-?? Elkins, Residence of Wm. L. -,5 Ellis, Residence of Rudolph .... • "^9 Flower Beds, Fairmount Park ... 40 Germantown Cricket Club Grounds 36 Girard College, Main Building ... 34 Horticultural Hall 41 Independence Hall . . i.S, 19, 20, 21, 22 Lily Pond, Fairmount Park . . .... .46 Market Street, looking West from Tenth Street 3 32. 33 ■ 39 Page. Mary J. Drexel Home 35 ilasonic Temple 4 Memorial Hall . 41 Mercantile Club 26 Mint, The U. S 17 Odd Fellows' Temple 5 Old Swedes' Church 23 Philadelphia Bour.se 14 Philadelphia Library, Ridgway Branch 34 Post Office. . . ' ..." 24 Religious Liberty, Statue of 47 River Drive, Fairmount Park 43, 44 Schuylkill River. A View of 51 Steamboat Landing, Fairmount Park 45 Stephen Girard, Statue of 25 Strawberry Hill Bridge .... 55 Union League Club 16 United Gas Improvement Co's. Building 6 University of Pennsylvania 30 View near Devil's Pool, Wissahickon Park 53 Wanamaker, Residence of John 3S Washington Monument . . . 4S Weightman Building . .... 14 William Penn House 40 Wissahickon Drive, Bridge on ... 54 Wissahickon, On the 52 Women's Christian Association 15 Young Men's Christian Association 15 Zoological Garden, Entrance to 42 56 LIBRARY OF CONGRESS 014 311 878 2 %