Identifier: strangersillustr00phil (find matches)
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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er-sons, and the dimensions of its stage, sixty-seven feet square by thirtyfeet high, give ample room for representations. The Fifth and SixthStreet cars and the Union line pass at Arch Street, near the theatre,and the Arch Street and Ridge Avenue lines pass the door. Assembly Buildings, situated at the southwest corner of Tenthand Chestnut Streets (entrance on Tenth Street), is used for balls, con-certs, panoramas, etc. Accessible from the western portion of the cityby the Chestnut and Market Street cars (stopping at Tenth Street),from the north by the Tenth Street cars, and from the south by theEleventh Street cars (stopping at Eleventh and Chestnut Streets) andthe Union line, stopping at Ninth and Chestnut Streets. Chestnut Street Theatre, situated on the north side of ChestnutStreet, above Twelfth, is neatly built, and is considered architecturallyamong the most attractive theatres in the city. Cars passing downChestnut Street convey visitors to the door. The theatre is accessible
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io AMUSEMENTS AND AUDIENCE HALLS. from the northern part of the city by the cars on Twelfth and Thir-teenth Streets, from the southern section by the cars on Eleventh Street,from the east by the cars on Walnut Street, and from both the east andwest by the cars on Market street. The Colosseum is situated on the southeast corner of Broad andLocust Streets, opposite the Academy of Music, and was constructedfor the purpose of exhibiting the painting of Paris by Night, andother similar works. It is a cylindrical structure about one hundredand thirty feet in diameter, the wall rising to the height of about eightyfeet, and surmounted by a tower one hundred and sixty-six feet fromthe level of the street. Accessible from the north by the ThirteenthStreet cars (stopping at Locust Street), from the east by the WalnutStreet cars (stopping at Broad Street), from the south by the FifteenthStreet cars (stopping at Locust Street), and from the west by theChestnut Street and Spruce Street cars, stoppi

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