Name/Title
The WissahickonEntry/Object ID
2013.34.3.83a-bDescription
The Edwin C. Jellett Series of Scrapbooks, Volume 3 -The Wissahickon
Page 83 contains two newspaper clippings:
(a,top) This clipping is a photograph with the heading "Park Improvement Plan Ignored". The caption reads: "Scene Showing Congestion at Rittenhouse Street and Wissahickion Avenue". The photograph shows a street scene with many horse-drawn wagons and automobiles. Many pedestrians are visible seen walking in the street and on the pavement. The street in the foreground is Wissahickon Avenue. Rittenhouse Street intersects Wissahickon Avenue in the mid-background.
(b, bottom) This illustration is an exact replica of that found on scrapbook page 75 (Volume 3, 2013.34.3.75b) and details the confines of the present Farimount Park and the proposed extension of the Park.Collection
GHS Scrapbook Collection
