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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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rn and westernsections of the city by the railway lines exchanging with these routes. Foxs American Theatre (Varieties), on Chestnut Street, betweenTenth and Eleventh, is among the most popular places of amusementin the city. Cars on Chestnut Street pass the door. Cars on EleventhStreet from the southern section of the city pass (at Eleventh andChestnut Streets) within a half-square, and cars from the north downTenth bring visitors to Tenth and Chestnut Streets, only a few doorsfrom the theatre. The Market Street cars also run within a square ofthe place—visitors by this route leaving the cars at either Tenth andMarket or Eleventh and Market Streets. Grand Central Variety Theatre, on Walnut Street, above EighthStreet, is accessible by the cars of the Union line from the northernsection of the city, which pass, at Seventh and Walnut Streets, withina square of the theatre. The same line from the southern section ofthe city takes visitors to Ninth and Walnut Streets, within a few doors
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XX^NS^^A-^e^vvs-v-r-i^-^-^sS?;-^ i HORTICULTURAL HALL. 12 AMUSEMENTS AND AUDIENCE HALLS. of the place, and the cars from the same section up Eighth Street passnear the door at Walnut Street. Visitors from the west by the Chest-nut Street and Spruce Street lines leave the cars at Eighth Street. TheWalnut Street cars from the east pass the door, and alternate cars onthe Fourth and Eighth Streets and Green Street and Fairmount Avenuelines pass up Walnut Street from Fourth to Eighth, leaving visitors atEighth and Walnut Streets. Handel and Haydn Hall. The hall of the Handel and HaydnSociety, situated at the northeast corner of Eighth and Spring GardenStreets, is accessible from the south by the cars on Eighth Street, andby the cars of the Union line passing up Ninth to Spring Garden ; fromthe north and northwest by the cars of the Union line, of the GreenStreet line, stopping at Eighth, and of the Sixth Street and the TenthStreet lines, stopping at Spring Garden. Horticultural Hall. The h

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