Grounds along the Schuylkill photographs, 1910-1913.

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Grounds along the Schuylkill photographs, 1910-1913.

Aerial views of the grounds along the Schuylkill River belonging to the University. Represented in the views are: the South Street Bridge, Convention Hall, Franklin Field, property of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, Woodlands Cemetery, the University Museum, the Commercial Museum, and the athletic fields.

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University of Pennsylvania. Franklin Field.

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University of Pennsylvania.

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The Department of Architecture at the University of Pennsylvania was part of the Towne Scientific School until 1920, when a separate School of Fine Arts was established, teaching architecture and other fine arts. Teaching staff and courses of instruction of the Towne Scientific School, Department of Architecture were listed in the Catalogue of the University of Pennsylvania. The School of Fine Arts published its teaching staff, regulations, courses of study, competitons and, in some years, curre...

Pennsylvania Railroad

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The Pennsylvania Railroad Company was the largest railroad in the United States in terms of corporate assets and traffic from the last quarter of the nineteenth century until the decline of the northeast's and midwest's dominance of manufacturing, caused by the evolution of the interstate highway system and the advancements in air transportation. Originally created by Philadelphia merchants in 1846, it sought to build a trunk route from Philadelphia to Pittsburgh via the Allegheny Mountains to c...

University of Pennsylvania, University Museum

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Commercial Museum (Philadelphia, Pa.)

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The Commercial Museum, located in Philadelphia, Pa., was in operation from 1897 to 2010. Modeled after the great exhibition halls of the World's Fairs (World Fair, Universal Exposition) of the late nineteenth century, the Museum offered a vast selection of displays and information related to commerce and trade in Pennsylvania, across the United Sates, and the international marketplace. The Museum maintained a large collection of photographs documenting a variety of industries, agriculture, and t...

Woodlands Cemetery (Philadelphia, Pa.)

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University of Pennsylvania. Bureau of Publicity.

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The Bureau of Publicity of the University of Pennsylvania merged with the Recorder's Office in 1912. George Erazmus Nitzsche served as the administrator of this office from 1902 to 1946. From the description of Grounds along the Schuylkill photographs, 1910-1913. (University of Pennsylvania). WorldCat record id: 122631048 ...