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Identifier: randmcnallycosha06chic (find matches)
Title: Rand, McNally & Co.'s handy guide to Philadelphia and environs, including Atlantic City and Cape May
Year: 1900 (1900s)
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Publisher: Chicago, New York, Rand, McNally & Co.
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been carrying on its work in the City Hall. Since thetime of this coalition, the Free Library has advanced very rapidly inthe number of books acquired and in its circulation, which is now thelargest of any library in the world, distributing, in 1897, 1,587,157volumes. Any one may use these books, or take them home byobtaining a ticket signed by two reputable citizens of his neighbor-hood. The Main Library is in temporary quarters at 1217-1221Chestnut Street, in addition to which the following branches havebeen opened: Wagner Institute Branch, Seventeenth Street and MontgomeryAvenue. Broad and Federal Branch, Broad and Federal streets.Frankford Avenue Branch, 1S58 Frankford Avenue.Roxborough Branch, Ridge and Lyceum avenues, Roxborough.West Philadelphia Branch, Fortieth and Ludlow streets.Germantown Branch, Vernon Park, Germantown.College Settlement Branch, Seventh and Lombard streets.Evening Home Branch, 25 South Van Pelt Street.McPherson Park Branch, Indiana Avenue and F Street. (76)
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LIBRARIES AND MUSEUMS. 77 Chestnut Hill Branch, Germantown Avenue, below ChestnutHill Avenue. Nicetown Branch, 4013-15 Germantown Avenue. These branches lend a prodigious number of volumes each year;the average at the Wagner Institute Branch being one thousand aday. The Library has, in addition, a number of collections of books incases, which are sent from point to point, constituting a TravelingLibrary System. These libraries are sent to places where the popu-lation would not justify the building of a branch, and also to FireStations and Telegraph Stations. Special collections are made inthis way also for some Unversity Extension centers and the GirlsNormal School. The number of volumes in the Library at thepresent time is about 160,000. Philadelphia Library.— Locust and Juniper streets. This library,together with the Loganian Library in the same building, is theoldest subscription library in the United States. The PhiladelphiaLibrary was founded by Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Hopkin

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