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Title: Quaint corners in Philadelphia, with one hundred and seventy-four illustrations
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Stockton, Louise, 1838-1914 Pennell, Elizabeth Robins, 1855-1936 Barber, Edwin Atlee, 1851-1916 Jackson, Joseph, 1867-1946 Turner, Eliza Sproat, Mrs., 1826-1903 Leach, Frank Willing, 1855-1943 Campbell, Helen, 1839-1918
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Publisher: Philadelphia, New York, J. Wanamaker
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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d Library stn-rts. IV-n-janiin Franklin wa- now an old man of i-iiihty-thive,restinj: aftiT Ion- and bu-y years of anxiety, enterpriseand hniKH-. He was not able to l;iy the new eorniT-»l had to alter it and insert his name. It runs astbllows: lu: IT i(KME>nu:i<Ei) I\ U<1NoU (»F THE IlIII.ADEI.rUIA YOUTH, (then ( hiefi.y aktificeks) THAT IN MI)e<XX.\I THEV ( HEEKFIELY, AT THE INST\\< E oF HEN.IAMIX FKANKI.IN, ONE OF THEIK NfMBEU, INSTITt TE1» THE IH I I.ADEI.FHI A I.IBKARY, W HK H, THol «iH SMAF-E AT FIUST, 19 BECOME HMIII V VAI.I VUEE AND EXTENSIVELY VSEFII., ANK WIIK H THE WAEES OF THIS EDIFICE AKE NOW DESTINED TO < ONTAIN AND PRESERVE, THE FIRST STONE OF WHOSE FOINDATION WAS HERE PLACED THE THIRTY-FIRST DAY OF AI (S 1ST, 1789. Then ^vh^•n this corner-stom was laid the younsrar-tilicers of another generatiuu came forward and asked mMui-
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THE PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY. THE OLD PIITLADELPITTA LTBRARY. 158 to be allowed to help with the new ))uil(lin,i;- and to taketheir pajMu stock, and one would taney that these sliaivswould be of special vahic to tiio<c who inlicrit thcni. What Philadelphian docs not i\aucnd)ei liiis hbrarv !Surel) never was there a buildinii more (juaint, morequiet, more tlioroiiuhly pervaded with the silent wi.-domof many liooks. Again it had followed the State House,l)ut now stood opposite on Fifth stivet. On the pave-ments were crowds of people hu)-rying l)y, and every-where groups standing to talk. Xowhere was theremore haste and more delay. (Omnibuses ha.l tlieir dayof rattling past, cars sped along, the prison wag(»ns andthe carriages of lawyers rund)led up the street, and yethe who ascended the winding tlat steps and ()assedunder the statue of Franklin and on through the fadedleather doors, passed into silence and into a deep i)eace.Case after case of books lined tlie walls, and ran up ingalle

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