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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reet cars pass at Chestnut Street, one squaredistant; and from the Delaware River the Market Street and WalnutStreet cars both pass at Ninth Street, one square away. Girard House is situated on Chestnut Street, near Ninth, directlyopposite to the Continental Hotel. For means of reaching the GirardHouse, see Continental Hotel. Guys Hotel, on the European plan, at Seventh and ChestnutStreets, is reached from the Kensington Depot by the Sixth Streetcars, which pass at Sixth and Chestnut Streets, one square distant; andfrom the northern sections of the city generally by the cars of the Unionline, which pass the hotel at Seventh and Chestnut Streets; from thenorthwest the Ridge Avenue cars, and from Fairmount the Arch Streetcars, both pass at Seventh and Arch Streets, two squares distant; andfrom West Philadelphia the Market Street cars pass at Seventh Street,within one square, and the Chestnut Street cars pass the door ; fromthe Baltimore Depot the cars of the Union line pass at Ninth and
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70 HOTELS. Chestnut Streets, two squares distant; and from the south the cars onEighth Street pass at Chestnut, one square distant; from the DelawareRiver the Walnut Street cars and the Market Street cars both pass atSeventh Street, one square distant. LaPierre House, on the west side of Broad Street, below ChestnutStreet, is reached from the Kensington Depot by the Sixth Streetcars, which connect by exchange tickets (price nine cents) with theWalnut Street line, and thus convey passengers to Broad and WalnutStreets, within one square ; from the West Philadelphia Depots by theMarket Street and Chestnut Street cars, both of which pass at ChestnutStreet, within one square ; from the Baltimore Depot by the FifteenthStreet cars, which pass at Chestnut Street, one square distant; andfrom the east by the Market Street and Walnut Street cars, both ofwhich pass at Broad Street, about one square distant. Merchants Hotel, situated on Fourth Street, between Market andArch Streets, is reached fro

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