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Mantua in the Late 19th Century

This Bromley map excerpt shows the eastern tier of Mantua between 36th Street and the tracks of the Pennsylvania Railroad above the west bank of the Schuylkill River. The neighborhood’s public school is at lower left, the northeast corner of Mt. Vernon and 38th streets.  

1892
Attribution/Credit

G.W. & W.S. Bromley, “Atlas of the 24th and 34th Wards, West Philadelphia” plate 4