Identifier: array1875sipe (find matches)
Title: The Pennsylvania railroad: its origin, construction, condition, and connections. Embracing historical, descriptive, and statistical notices of cities, towns, villages, stations, industries, and objects of interest on its various lines in Pennsylvania and New Jersey
Year: 1875 (1870s)
Authors: Sipes, William B., d. 1905 Pennsylvania Railroad. Passenger Dept
Subjects: Pennsylvania Railroad
Publisher: Philadelphia (Pennsylvania Railroad Co.) Passenger Dept.
Contributing Library: Northeastern University, Snell Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Northeastern University, Snell Library

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ngdale, be-tween One Hundred and Fifteenth andOne Hundred and Twentieth streets. Thegrounds include about forty acres, hand-somely and tastefully laid out. In location,arrangement, and in all other respects, it furnishes an elegant retreat for its unfortunateinmates. The New York Orphan Asylumis beautifully situated on the bank of theHudson, between Seventy-third and Seventy-fourth streets. Its grounds occupy aboutnine acres, and in its design and appoint-ments it is a noble charity. The Institutionfor the Deaf and Dumb is on WashingtonHeights, and is liberally endowed and wellmanaged. The Institution for the Blindoccupies the block between Thirty-thirdand Thirty-fourth streets and Eighth andNinth avenues, and is a beautiful specimenof architecture. The Cooper Union occupiesthe block bounded by Seventh and Eighthstreets and Third and Fourth avenues. _ Itcontains a large and well-supplied reading-room, a library, an art gallery, and a numberof instruction and lecture rooms, free to all
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