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 Chestnut Street, near Fifteenth Street. 
 
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 Southwest Corner Eighteenth and Arch .Streets 
 
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 ■-oiitiieast Corner ihesinm ami l-'il'leenth Streets. 
 
THE L'XlThl) ^lAl 1-.^ MIXT— X. W. Corner Cll<.■^itInlt and Junipur Streets. 
 
INDEPEXDEXCE HAEL. 
 Chtstnut, between ImIUi antl Sixth Streets. 
 
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 MERCANTILE CLUB — Xoith Broad Street, near Master Street. 
 
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 Spruce and Piue, from Thirty-sixth to Thirlv-seventh Streets. 
 
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RIVER IJRIVE, FAIRMOUN 1 I'.VkK — Above Columbia Bridge. 
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sTliAMBUAT LA.XUIXG. 1-AIRMOUNT PARK. 
 

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STATUE OF REL1GIOI.S LIBERTY. I-AIRMOUNT PARK. 
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 THE LAKH, XF.AR BELMoXT AVENUE, FAIRMOUNT PARK. 
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 BOAT -HOUSES, FAlRMOrXT PARK' 
 
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A VIF.W OF THE SCHUYLKILL RIVER FROM FAIRMOIXT PARK 
 
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ON THE WISSAHICKOX. 
 
"lEW XF.Ak DF.VILS POOL, WISSAEIICKOX I'ARK 
 
TABLE OF CONTENTS. 
 
 Academy of I'lne Aits 
 
 \it Club 
 
 
 
 
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 Bethany Cluiixh. Iiileridr 
 
 
 
 
 23 
 
 Boat Houses, Faiimouut Park .... 
 
 Broad Street from Girard .-X venue 
 
 Broad Street, looking North from City Hall 
 
 
 
 
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 17 
 
 Cathedral of St. Peter and St. Paul, Interior 
 Chestnut Street, looking East from Sixth Stre 
 Chestnut Street, looking West from Eighth S 
 Chestnut Street, looking West from Ninth Sti 
 Chew Mansion 
 
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 12 
 
 36 
 
 Church of St. James the Greater, Interior 
 City Hall 
 
 
 
 
 24 
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 Cramp's Shipyard 
 
 
 
 
 33 
 
 Urexel Building 
 
 Drexel Institute 
 
 
 
 
 5 
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 Drcxel, Residence of G. W. C 
 
 
 
 
 34 
 
 Ellis, Residence of Rudolph 
 
 I'lower Beds, Fairmount Park .... 
 Germantown Cricket Club (Grounds . . 
 Girard College, Main Building 
 
 Horticultural Hall 
 
 Independence Hall 
 
 Lake, Eairntount Park 
 
 
 
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 37 
 
 S, 19 
 
 44 
 
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 Tu-el 
 
 Lily Pond, I'airmount Park 
 Lincoln Monument, Kairmount I 
 Market Street Ferry . . 
 Market Street, looking ICast f 
 Mary J. Drexel Home 
 Masonic Temple .... 
 Memorial Hall .... 
 Mercantile Club .... 
 
 .Mint, The T. S 
 
 Odd Fellows' Temple . . 
 Philadelphia Bourse 
 Philadelphia & Reading Terminal 
 Philadelphia Library, Ridgway Branch 
 
 Post Office 
 
 Religious Liberty. Statue of . 
 River Drive, Fairmount Park 
 Schuylkill River, A N'iew of . . . 
 Steamboat Landing, Fairmount Park 
 
 Union League Club 
 
 University of Pennsylvania . . . 
 University of Pennsylvania .\thletie Gr 
 View near Devil's Pool, Wissahickon Pi 
 Wanamaker, Residence of John . 
 Washington Monument. 
 Wcightnian Building .... 
 William Penn House .... 
 Wissahickon Drive, Bridge on 
 Wissahickon On the .... 
 Women's Christian Association 
 Young Men's Christian Association 
 Zoological r.arden. Entrance to . 
 
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