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Somerset Street over Richmond Branch of Philadelphia and Reading Railroad

Town houses in South Philadelphia along Broad Street.

Looking West on McKean Street from Front Street

Center City Philadelphia street scene, depicting Chestnut Street West from 10th Street, with passers-by wearing suits and bowler hats, store front signs for Wymann Pianos and others.

Row houses near the John Hay School at 6th and Wharton, a block from where Sam Spritz first lived with his aunt after his arrival in Philadelphia in 1913. The photograph depicts the two story row houses, front stoops, and cobblestone streets of this…

This South Philadelphia street scene depicts a laundry shop; men, women and children; barrels of refuse; cobblestone street, and trolley tracks.

View from Delaware Avenue and Arch Street looking north towards the Delaware River Bridge (now the Benjamin Franklin Bridge) seen under construction.

This photo is a street-level photo taken at Columbia Avenue (now Cecil B. Moore Ave.) and 5th Street, that shows a sign for the Henry H. Sheip Manufacturing Company.

The northwest corner of 9th and Arch Streets, a segment of the Tenderloin District of Philadelphia.

A black and white image of Pier 11 North underneath the Benjamin Franklin Bridge. When it opened in 1926 the Delaware River Bridge--renamed the Benjamin Franklin Bridge in 1956--was the world’s longest suspension bridge.