Identifier: universityofpenn01nitz (find matches)
Title: University of Pennsylvania: its history, traditions, buildings and memorials: also a brief guide to Philadelphia
Year: 1918 (1910s)
Authors: Nitzsche, George Erasmus, 1874- (from old catalog) ed
Subjects: University of Pennsylvania
Publisher: Philadelphia, International printing company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

View Book Page: Book Viewer
About This Book: Catalog Entry
View All Images: All Images From Book
Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.

Text Appearing Before Image:
ttoms in frosli water. Tho shops werefoinuorlN engagoil in repair work, but the yard is now also usedfin- tho ionsHuetion of war vessels. There aro many marine bar-lacks and i>fruors josidoncos in the yard. THE ZODIAX^KWI. UAUOKNTho Zoological harden is loeatod at dirard Avenue and Thirty-tifth Street, and may bo reached by all trolley lines crossing i^lirardAvtMiuc. It contains about thirty acres, formerly part of Solitude, 285 the country residence of John Ponn, a grandson of William Penn.Is has a large and interesting collection of animals, especiallyrich in bisons and in bears, of which there arc seven grizzlies.There are two young hippopotami, a giraffe, a rhinoceros, lionsand tigers, camels, zebras, elks, deer, llamas, wild horses, a largecollection of apes, an especially fine lot of birds and reptiles, apathological laboratory and animal hospital, the first of its kindin the world. An admission of twenty-five cents is charged, excepton Saturdays, when admission is ten cents.
Text Appearing After Image:
ihoto by l\au. FIRST UNITED STATES BANK BUILDING ON THIRD STREET. THE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OP PENNSYLVANIA The Historical Society of Pennsylvania, at Thirteenth of LocustStreets, was founded in 1824, at a meeting at the house of ThomasI. Wharton, on Sixth Street between Chestnut and Walnut Streets,by Robert Vaux, Stephen Duncan, Thomas I. Wharton, WilliamRawle, Jr., Dr. Benjamin H. Coates, Dr. Caspar Wistar and GeorgeW. Smith. Its first meetings were held in Carpenters Court.William Rawle was elected its first president in 1825. In Novemberof that year he delivered his inaugural address at the Universityof Pennsylvania, and the society rented a room in the hall of theAmerican Philosophical Society. In 1844 it occupied a room (now211 South Sixth Street) belonging to the Pennsylvania Life Insur-ance Company. In 1847 it rented a room in the Athenaeum, onSixth Street below Walnut, then newly built. Later, it leased abuilding. No. 820 Spruce Street, belonging to the PennsylvaniaHospital. In

Note About Images