Item Info
Item No: pdcc01039
Title: Reading Railroad Company's Building.
Historic Street Address:
4th Street & Willing's Alley
Media Type: Scrapbooks
Source: Print and Picture Collection
Notes:
Depicts the Reading Railroad Company's building on the Northeast corner of 4th & Willing's Alley. Shows a passing horse-drawn cart laden with boxed goods, and a coach and horses drawn up in front of the building, on Fourth Street. The building became known as the Willings, named after the Revolutionary War financier Thomas Willings who owned a mansion on the block. It was converted to luxury condominiums.
Published in Philadelphia and Its Environs, by J. B. Lippincott Co., 1872.
Geocode Latitude: Geocode Longitude:-75.148105
Geocode Latitude:39.946536
Call Number: A917.481 P536 v.10
Creator Name: J. B. Lippincott & Co. - Lithographer
Castner, Samuel, Jr., 1843-1929 - Compiler