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Philadelphia Custom House and Post Office (Second Bank of the United States building)

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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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fice was built, not long since, the rapid growth ofits business now calls for greater space, and, to supply the want, a newbuilding is being erected at the corner of Ninth and Chestnut Streets,for which an appropriation of $3,000,000 has been made. Deaf and Dumb Asylum. See Hospitals and Asylums. DELAWARE RIVER. Prominent among the attractions of Philadelphia is the DelawareRiver front, with its miles of wharves and storehouses, its numerousocean steamers and sailing vessels, and its busy ferry-boats and otherriver craft plying hither and thither. Excursions on the Delaware bysteamer, up the river to Burlington and Trenton and intermediateplaces, and down the river to Wilmington and other points on the Dela-ware Bay, are favorite methods of recreation. As might be supposed,this river, with its broad stream, deep channel, and abrupt bank, is thechosen home of the shipping interest, while the Schuylkill is still wait-ing for the time to come when its shores will be needed to relieve the
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CUSTOM-HOUSE AND POST-OFFICE. 54 DELAWARE RIVER. eastern wharves. Important points on the river are reached from thewestern section of the city by the Callowhill Street cars, which conveypassengers to Front and Vine Streets (the ferry of the Camden andAtlantic Railroaa); by the Race Street cars, which pass along Second

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  • bookcontributor:The_Library_of_Congress
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  • bookleafnumber:60
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