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Title: Pennsylvania railroad to the Columbian exposition
Year: 1893 (1890s)
Authors: Pennsylvania railroad company. (from old catalog)
Subjects: World's Columbian Exposition (1893 : Chicago, Ill.)
Publisher: (Philadelphia, Allen, Lane & Scott, printers)
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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ny wayrealizing that within them are the means of an education such asnone of the more famous colleges of the country could excel. The Enoch Pratt Free Library, founded by a Baltimore com-mission merchant of that name, you discover is a Romanesquebuilding of marble, on Mulberry Street near Cathedral, and richin works on all subjects. It has five branches situated in differ-ent parts of the city. At the corner of the two streets namedyou observe a massive granite structure of Grecian architecture,with Ionic columns supporting the central portico, and surmountedby a dome of magnificent proportions. It is the Roman Catho-lic Cathedral and one of the grandest church edifices in the city. A priceless collection of manuscripts, documentary records,volumes, and pamphlets you examine with some interest at theMaryland Historical Societys rooms on Saratoga Street nearCharles, and you find not a little pleasure in the paintings andcurios which form one of the finest collections of ancient art in
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58 the Inited States. Another art gallery well worth a visit is that ofMr. William T. Walters, at No. 5 Mount Vernon Place, wherehis very rich private collection is open to the public on certaindays during three months of the year. It is possible, too, thatyou inspect the Johns Hopkins Hospital, one of the best housedand appointed institutions of the kind in America, and the Wom-ans College, which, with the adjacent structure of the FirstMethodist Episcopal Church, making up a most pleasing archi-tectural group, must not be omitted from your sight-seeing tour.In the outlying sections of the city you also find much toinstruct and amuse you. Druid Hill Park, though not large,abounds in many natural beauties and is likewise richly adornedwith statuary and other monuments. Patterson Park is notablefor its conservatories, and Federal Park for the magnificent viewof Baltimore obtainable from its elevated plateau. ^J^

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