Civil Rights in a Northern City: Philadelphia > Columbia Avenue Riots

McKensey Greenhouses at Broad Street and Columbia Avenue

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Title

Date

1870

Description

Can you imagine that the northwest corner of Broad Street and Columbia Avenue ever looked like this? The photograph was made in 1870, and shows the McKensey greenhouses. Six years later the razing of these buildings was started.""

Subjects

Solar greenhouses

Streets

Geographic Subject

Philadelphia (Pa.)

North Philadelphia

Columbia Avenue (Philadelphia, Pa.)

Notes

With clipping

Format

Image/jp2

Type

Photographs

Rights

This material is subject to copyright law and is made available for private study, scholarship, and research purposes only. For access to the original or a high resolution reproduction, and for permission to publish, please contact Temple University Libraries, Special Collections Research Center, scrc@temple.edu, 215-204-8257.

Contact

scrc@temple.edu

Folder

Streets (Name)--Columbia Avenue

Digital Collection

George D. McDowell Philadelphia Evening Bulletin Photographs

Civil Rights in a Northern City

Columbia Avenue Riots

Repository

Temple University Libraries, Urban Archives

Digital Publisher

Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Libraries

Identifier

P708196B