Item Info
Item No: pdcf00343
Title: Wharton Street Branch
Additional Title: Interior view of the Wharton Street Branch, ca. 1923
Historic Street Address:
1415 Wharton Street
Media Type: Photographic Prints
Source: Print and Picture Collection
Notes:
The second Philadelphia Public Library branch, established in 1893 by the Philadelphia Board of Education, was located in a YMCA building at Broad & Federal Streets. When the Free Library of Philadelphia became the City’s sole free public library system in 1896, the branch became a Free Library branch. In 1923, it moved into a building at 1415 Wharton Street, becoming the Wharton Street Branch. This is a ca. 1923 interior view of the first floor reading room, facing the front.
The Wharton Street Branch served the South Center City area of Philadelphia from 1923-1944, when the branch was closed upon the opening of the Ridgway Library nearby.
Creation Year: ca. 1923
Geocode Latitude: Geocode Longitude:-75.168412
Geocode Latitude:39.934268