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Realty Values Bound When High-Speed Line Enters West Philadelphia

    Philadelphia Evening Ledger page illustrating the Market Elevated's impact on West Philadelphia's growth in 1914.

    The Philadelphia Evening Ledger illustrated the Market Elevated's impact on West Philadelphia's growth by juxtaposing a 1914 photograph of Market Street at 60th Street station with photographs of the area taken before the start of track construction in 1904.

    Decades
    1900s, 1910s
    Themes
    Public Transportation
    1914
    Street Address
    60th and Market Streets
    Copyright
    Public Domain
    Attribution/Credit

    Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers, Library of Congress; Penn State University Libraries

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