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Title: University of Pennsylvania: its history, traditions, buildings and memorials: also a brief guide to Philadelphia
Year: 1918 (1910s)
Authors: Nitzsche, George Erasmus, 1874- (from old catalog) ed
Subjects: University of Pennsylvania
Publisher: Philadelphia, International printing company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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on. Thecontr-ol oC the ii\-er was successively in the hands of the Swedes,Dutch, lOnglish, until settknl bv William Penn at Philadelijhia in1GS2. No r-i\-ei- in Anier-ica. is so full of liistorieal inter-est as theDelaware. lU-tween lMiiladeli)hia and Wilmington the Wilsorr Linerrraintains a. lleet of i)asseng-ei- steamers leaving- Ciiestnut StreetPier-. Principal )>oints going- south ai-e: a few miles below thecity, Gr-cenwich Boint on the west, Gloucester on the east. UnitedStates Inrmigration Dei)ot, Detention Camj) arrd Buena Vista Park and Fen-y House; next, L-cH.mie Island Navy Yard on the west;Lied Bank, with lievolutionaiy monument, on the east; next, J^ortMifflin and new ship yards on the west; next, Lincohi Park on theeast; next, Essin.^ton Aviation School on the west; GibbstownPowder Works on the east ; next, the great Baldwin Corijoration,Eddystone, Baldwin and ILeminston Munition plants; next, Chester,old buildings of great historical interest; then on the west, Marcus
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Photo by Rau. CARPENTERS HALL. Hook, oil refining- and shipping point; Government Quarantine Sta-ition; Government Eng-ineering Station ; on the east, near Wil-mington, Pennsgrove and Carneys Point Powder Works; Wil-mington. At Chester and Wilmington go to respective historicalsociety headquarters for paJiiphlets. The old town of New Castleis a short trolley ride below Wilmington. Passenger steamers from Philadelphia to Trenton pass througn ■ 274 a more pictuicsqiic ixjition oL tlic l>(hi\vaie liivor. wliich hasmany cliarinim^ views in its upper reaches. Aiter leavhij^- Cram))sSliipyard and tlie Ileadini^- llailroad Coal Piers and passin.^- througlitile drawlirid.ye, Hiid(shuj-,i; and Tacony are on the Pennsylvania,side, the latter tiie site of the Disston Saw Works. On the Jersey

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