Benjamin Franklin Memorial Museum - Postcard

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Benjamin Franklin Memorial Museum - Postcard

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Item No: pdcp00545
Title: Benjamin Franklin Memorial Museum - Postcard
Additional Title: Philadelphia Benjamin Franklin Memorial Museum
Historic Street Address: 222 North 20th Street
Media Type: Photographic Prints
Source: Print and Picture Collection
Notes:

Located: Postcard Collection  Under: Philadelphia - Franklin Institute

[ON REVERSE] Benjamin Franklin Memorial and The Franklin Institute   The Parkway at Twentieth Street    Home of the historic "Franklin Institute," which was located from 1824 to 1933 on South 7th Street, "THE FELS PLANETARIUM" and THE FRANKLIN INSTITUTE SCIENTIFIC and INDUSTRIAL MUSEUM.   The Planetarium is the second in this country.    The Museum, covering more than four acres, contains a collection of exhibits, which are to be operated by the spectator.

Photogr. & Publ. by K. F. Lutz, Philadelphia, Pa.   No 185.  Orig. Photography. Printed in the U.S.A.


Creation Year: ca. 1940
Geocode Latitude: Geocode Longitude:-75.172555
Geocode Latitude:39.958603

Creator Name: Lutz, K. F. (Karl F.), 1896- - Photographer
Windrim, John T. (John Torrey), 1866-1934 - Architect