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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hed in 1820, for the use of apprentices and other young persons,without charge of any kind for the use of books. The Library isdivided into two departments, one for boys, containing about fifteenthousand volumes, and one for girls, containing about eight thousandfive hundred volumes. A reading-room has also recently been estab-lished. The Arch Street cars, the Ridge Avenue cars, and the Fifth Streetcars all pass the Library. Athenaeum Library and Reading-room is situated on SixthStreet, below Walnut, at the corner of Adelphi Street. The buildingis of brown stone, erected about 1846, and is remarkable for its chasteand beautiful style of architecture. Mercantile Library, the largest and most popular of the librariesof the city, is located on Tenth Street, between Market and ChestnutStreets. The building is a large, roomy structure, well fitted up for itspurposes, and affords ample accommodations for its numerous patrons.The Library has about one hundred and thirty thousand volumes, and
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MASONIC TEMPLE.—MEDICAL SCHOOLS. 75 numerous periodical publications, American and foreign. Attached arerooms for correspondence, reading, etc., and a chess-room for the useof members. The rooms are open daily until 10 P.M. The TenthStreet cars pass the Library, and the Chestnut Street and MarketStreet cars pass at Tenth, a half-square distant. Philadelphia Library, on the northeast corner of Fifth and LibraryStreets, is the oldest institution of the kind in Philadelphia, having beenfounded in 1731, mainly through the influence of Dr. Franklin. It wasremoved to its present location in 1790. This library is particularlyrich in classic and standard works, and is much frequented by those en-gaged in scholarly pursuits. Connected with the Philadelphia Libraryis the Loganian Library, a bequest of Mr. James Logan, once chief-jus-tice of the Province of Pennsylvania. In 1791 the Loganian Librarywas placed in charge of the Philadelphia Library Company. Thesecombined libraries contain about

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