Identifier: strangersillustr00phil (find matches)
Title: The stranger's illustrated pocket guide to Philadelphia, embracing a description of the principal objects of interest in and around the city, with directions how to reach them
Year: 1876 (1870s)
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Subjects: Centennial Exhibition (1876 : Philadelphia, Pa.)
Publisher: Philadelphia, J.B. Lippincott & co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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UNION LEAGUE. the appointments of a first-class club-house, and as such has manypatrons, the list of members at the present time numbering nearly twothousand. UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA. The new and elegant buildings of the University of Pennsylvania arelocated on a square of ground at Thirty-fourth and Locust Streets. This institution was chartered as a charity school and academy in1750, and was erected into a college in 1755, and into a university in1779. It was first located on Fourth Street, below Arch, but was re-moved to Ninth Street in 1798, and until 1872 occupied two large build-ings which stood on the site of the new Post-Office. The old buildingshaving become inadequate to its wants, the presenc magnificent struc-tures of serpentine marble were erected, and occupied in 1872. Theyform one of the handsomest groups of college buildings in the UnitedStates.
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112 WISSAHICKON CREEK. The University is divided into academical, collegiate, medical, andlaw departments, and among its faculty are numbered some of the mostdistinguished men in the State. The junction of Thirty-sixth Street, Darby Road, and Locust Streetwas selected as the best location for the new buildings of the University.The trustees have erected for the accommodation of the Department ofArts and of Science one of the largest and most conveniently arrangedcollege buildings in the country. This building stands in a square ofground containing more than six acres, and is about two hundred andsixty feet front, by more than one hundred in depth. WISSAHICKON CREEK The far-famed Wissahickon, an affluent of the Schuylkill River, is alovely stream winding through a narrow valley between steep and loftyhills which are wooded to their summits, and have the appearance of a

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