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| Description: | The entrance hallway contains a large statue of St. Joseph carrying Jesus with a vase of flowers and chalice sitting at the feet. The ceiling has heavy cro... |
| Date: | 1881 |
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| Description: | A view of Logan Hall, home to the Wharton School of Business. The building features Gothic Revival elements, including the arched windows and quatrefoils f... |
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| Description: | Interior of a library in Saint Joseph Hall, opened in 1903. Located on the campus of Mount Saint Joseph Collegiate Institute, founded in 1900, the library ... |
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| Description: | A view of the parlor at Mt. St. Joseph. A table stands near the doorway and wooden chairs are arranged on a carpet across the room. Multiple paintings deco... |
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| Description: | A view of the study room at St. Joseph's college, lined with rows of desks. This room appears to double as a worship space, as the desk at the front of the... |
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| Description: | A view looking over rows of desks in the novitiate classroom at Mount St. Joseph. Light fixtures hang from the tin ceiling and a double door entrance is lo... |
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| Description: | A view of the Museum and Science Room at Mount St. Joseph. Taxidermied birds and fish are arranged on the shelves of a display cabinet standing along the w... |
| Date: | 1876 |
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| Description: | A Withington wire binder sits on display inside a building at the Centennial Exposition, the first official World's Fair in the United States. |
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| Description: | Exterior of Fairmount Water Works with numerous columned buildings overlooking a river with boats moored to a small dock. Another boat is on the river in m... |
| Date: | 09 27 1876 |
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| Description: | Certificate presented to the State of Wisconsin for the "Bald-Headed Eagle 'Old Abe'" from the United States Centennial Commission. Presented in Philadelp... |
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| Description: | Frontal view of the Betsy Ross House, located at 239 Arch Street and built around 1740. The house features a display window with historic photographs and a... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Two men use a slide to load boxes from the loading dock on the second floor of the Welsbach Street Lighting Company onto the bed of one of the company's Mo... |
| Date: | 03 30 1925 |
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| Description: | A man loads a wooden box containing a casket onto the back of a Model 33 International truck owned by the National Casket Company. |
| Date: | 03 30 1925 |
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| Description: | Men loading bushels of fruit and vegetables onto the back of a Model 63 International truck owned by the McCray & Hunter company. A loading dock of a brick... |
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| Description: | View down 52nd Street, a road leading into Fairmount Park. An automobile and a pedestrian pass by rows of trees. |
| Date: | 04 07 1924 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of International Harvester's Philadelphia branch house. Automobiles are parked in a cul-de-sac in front of the building; a sign reading: "Int... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a train stopped at the North Philadelphia depot, surrounded by various industrial buildings, including the International Harvester Company... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | View of an man sitting in an electric car by Rumsey, founded in 1895. A Rumsey Electric Company Limited General Catalog is depicted alongside the vehicle. |
| Date: | 1944 |
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| Description: | International KR-11 truck with refrigerated semi-trailer (semi truck) parked next to a box car near a warehouse building. Original caption reads: "Meat and... |
| Date: | 12 07 1943 |
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| Description: | View of the battleship U.S.S. Wisconsin launching. A large group of spectators is gathered in the foreground. |
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