McKensey Greenhouses at Broad Street and Columbia Avenue

Item

Title
McKensey Greenhouses at Broad Street and Columbia Avenue
Description
Can you imagine that the northwest corner of Broad Street and Columbia Avenue ever looked like this? The photograph was made in 1870, and shows the McKensey greenhouses. Six years later the razing of these buildings was started.""
Contact
scrc@temple.edu
Date
1870
Digital Collection
George D. McDowell Philadelphia Evening Bulletin Photographs
Civil Rights in a Northern City
Columbia Avenue Riots
Digital Collection Facet
Columbia Avenue Riots
Digital Publisher
Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Libraries
Folder
Streets (Name)--Columbia Avenue
Format
Image/jp2
Geographic Subject
Philadelphia (Pa.)
North Philadelphia
Columbia Avenue (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Identifier
P708196B
Item URL
http://digital.library.temple.edu/utils/ajaxhelper/?CISOROOT=/p15037coll3&CISOPTR=6058&action=2&DMSCALE=25.00000&DMWIDTH=1400&DMHEIGHT=1400
Notes
With clipping
Repository
Temple University Libraries, Urban Archives
Rights
This material is subject to copyright law and is made available for private study, scholarship, and research purposes only. For access to the original or a high resolution reproduction, and for permission to publish, please contact Temple University Libraries, Special Collections Research Center, scrc@temple.edu, 215-204-8257.
Subject
Solar greenhouses
Streets
Type
Photographs