Item Info

Historic Street Address: 12th & Sansom Streets, Southeast corner
Historic Street Address: 9th & Spring Garden Streets
Historic Street Address: Broad & Sansom Streets, Northwest corner
Media Type: Scrapbooks
Source: Print and Picture Collection
Notes:

Item 4, lower right: Illustration of the Girls' Normal School, Spring Garden Street, between 12th and 13th Streets. The three story brick building was designed by noted architect Samuel Sloan and constructed in 1852. 11 x 12 cm.

Notes: Item 1, upper left: Title page from the Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. Engraved vignette shows exterior view of the Hall of the Academy, located at the southeast corner of Twelfth and George (now Sansom) Streets. Built in 1816 as Swedenborgian Church of the New Jerusalem, William Strickland, architect. Engraving. 14.8 x 23.4 cm.
Notes: Item 2, upper right: Engraved vignette of the Academy of Natural Sciences on the corner of Broad and Sansom Streets. From Philadelphia As It Is in 1852. Philadelphia. Lindsay & Blakiston. 1852. 9.5 x 14.6 cm.
Notes: Item 3, lower left: The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. Engraving reproduced in unknown publication. 12.5 x 6.5 cm.
Creation Year: ca. 1845
Geocode Latitude: Geocode Longitude:-75.152927
Geocode Latitude:39.961641

Call Number: A917.481 P536 v.17
Creator Name: Castner, Samuel, Jr., 1843-1929 - Compiler