Green Aerial View of Parkway

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Green Aerial View of Parkway

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Item No: pdcp01035
Title: Green Aerial View of Parkway
Historic Street Address: Benjamin Franklin Parkway
Media Type: Photographic Prints
Source: Print and Picture Collection
Notes:

From the book  Philadelphia / Text by Bill Harris; designed & produced by Ted Smart & David Gibbon;  Mayflower Books, Inc., 1980, p. 26.  The library classification is non-fiction, 917.4811 H24p.

This aerial view shows the Benjamin Franklin Parkway, from 17th Street in the foreground, to the Art Museum of Philadelphia at the far end (and Fairmount Park beyond).  In the center is Logan Circle, with the Free Library’s Parkway Central branch just off (up and right) of the circle.

Facsimile of image used in the exhibition, Corridor of Culture: 100 Years of the Benjamin Franklin Parkway, Parkway Central Library West Gallery, September 2017-November 2018.


Geocode Latitude: Geocode Longitude:-75.170096
Geocode Latitude:39.957252

Creator Name: Colour Library International, Ltd. - Photographer