This image gallery contains images of Philadelphia streets in neighborhood from the early periods of American Photography. Taken from the City archives, they were often taken for landscape architecture or documentary purposes, and so emphasize accurately representing place. What they sometimes lack is the presence of people or action, giving them a ghostly quality.

cityhall 39thandlocust 43rdandwalnut
broadandgermantown broadandgirard 18thandlocust
germantownandcresheim gowenanddevon huntingparkandgermantown
independencehall1900 rooftopbleachers mccallumandhorter

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