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- Eyeball overload
- How arch this is!
- Telephone distribution rings
- Eye in the sky
- Hill no
- Camera Location and 1907 Date
- I thought that too, at first
- Shades of the '50s
- Navy Blue
- After 1906
- getting the fish-eye by the seaside
- Monoculture
- In the Navy
- My Beach....My Sand
- Frankly Cross
- You Said There Would Be Ice Cream
- Big, widow mansion
- Delight??? Really?
- They don't Vanderbilt them like they used to ...
- Choosing Style Over Comfort
- Scared Stiff
- Automobiles
- Bumper cars
- Steering wheels
- Stuck In Time
- No longer standing
- The Disappearing Railroad Blues
- What's new?
- Starting with a bang
- Companion car
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[REV 25-NOV-2014]
Fulladelphia: 1959
Spring 1959. "Arch Street study, Philadelphia, looking north. Taken before demolition in 1959." A city dedicated to the proposition that all men should be free, but parking you have to pay for. Photo by Jack E. Boucher for the Historic American Buildings Survey. View full size.
Keep off the grass?
I imagine that little sign says "Keep off the grass" (or curb your dog).
Looks like a used car lot in the back!
Things to come?
Automobil eat Arch Street? And others, too?
Independent Photography
This photo looks like it might have been taken from the top of Independence Hall.
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