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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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ad and Spruce Streets, within one square ofthe Asylum ; and from West Philadelphia the Chestnut Street cars andthe Market Street cars pass at Broad Street, about two squares distant;from the south the Fifteenth Street cars pass the building at PineStreet; and from the east the Pine Street cars convey passengers tothe building, and the Walnut Street cars pass at Broad Street, withintwo squares. Episcopal Hospital. Hospital of the Protestant EpiscopalChurch, in the northeast section of the city, occupies a square ofground at Front and Huntingdon Streets. It is composed of a centralbuilding and three wings, having a front of two hundred and fifty-eightfeet; the depth of the main building being two hundred and fifty-sixfeet, and that of the wings two hundred feet. Although under the man-agement of the Episcopal Church, the Hospital is open to patients ofall creeds. Visitors reach the Hospital by the Fifth Street cars, takingthe Lehigh Avenue and Powell Street branch. Railway lines running
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HOSPITALS AND ASYLUMS. 65 east and west connect with the Fifth Street cars by exchange tickets(price nine cents), thus rendering the Hospital accessible from all sec-tions of the city. Friends Asylum for the Insane, at Frankford, one of theoldest insane retreats in the United States, is under the managementof the Society of Friends. The buildings are three-storied, and have afront of three hundred feet. About seventy-five patients can be accom-modated here. Visitors to the Asylum take the Fifth Street cars, andexchange at Kensington with the steam branch for Frankford. German Hospital, situated at Girard and Corinthian Avenues,near Girard College, is a brick building about one hundred and twentyfeet in length by one hundred feet in width. Accessible by the GirardAvenue branch of the Fourth and Eighth Street cars, and by otherlines running north and south, which connect by exchange tickets (pricenine cents) with the cars on Girard Avenue. The Nineteenth Streetcars also pass, at Girard

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