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Schuylkill Expressway

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 12 Collections and/or Records:

Plan of Schuylkill Expressway between Reading Railroad and Neill Drive (pages 16 and 18 of 37), n.d.

 Item — Drawer F1, Folder: 2.1
Scope and Contents note From the Collection: This collection contains a variety of maps, plans and drawings relating to East and West Fairmount Park. Materials included in the collection are blueprints, bluelines, linens, mylars and paper. The collection contains diverse types of maps and plans, such as sewer plans, topographic plans, site plans, latitudinal and longitudinal plans, water main plans, street maps, and landscape plans. The collection is particularly strong in topographic plans, covering the entire region, and structural...
Dates: n.d.

Relocated West River Drive, Schuylkill Expressway, 34th Street, 1952 July 2

 Item — Drawer F15c, Folder: 1.1
Scope and Contents note From the Collection: This collection contains a variety of maps, plans and drawings relating to East and West Fairmount Park. Materials included in the collection are blueprints, bluelines, linens, mylars and paper. The collection contains diverse types of maps and plans, such as sewer plans, topographic plans, site plans, latitudinal and longitudinal plans, water main plans, street maps, and landscape plans. The collection is particularly strong in topographic plans, covering the entire region, and structural...
Dates: 1952 July 2

Schuylkill Expressway, 1953, 1967

 File — Drawer 5.3
Scope and Contents note From the Collection: This collection contains photographs of the Fairmount Park system and Philadelphia recreation facilities created between 1855 and 2012, primarily photographic prints with some slides, negatives, contact sheets, and transparencies. The collection consists largely of 8 x 10 inch prints documenting park features such as historic houses, guard boxes, landscapes, construction, and demolition, as well as recreation centers, playgrounds, pools, and recreational programming, though sizes and...
Dates: 1953; 1967

Schuylkill Expressway, undated

 Item — Drawer Fb, Folder: 2.1
Scope and Contents note From the Collection: This collection contains a variety of maps, plans and drawings relating to East and West Fairmount Park. Materials included in the collection are blueprints, bluelines, linens, mylars and paper. The collection contains diverse types of maps and plans, such as sewer plans, topographic plans, site plans, latitudinal and longitudinal plans, water main plans, street maps, and landscape plans. The collection is particularly strong in topographic plans, covering the entire region, and structural...
Dates: undated

Schuylkill Expressway

 Digital Image
Identifier: DO_032

Schuylkill Expressway. Drawing, "Schuylkill Expressway View Looking South toward Girard Avenue", 1952 December 2

 Item — Drawer Fb, Folder: 2.1
Scope and Contents note From the Collection: This collection contains a variety of maps, plans and drawings relating to East and West Fairmount Park. Materials included in the collection are blueprints, bluelines, linens, mylars and paper. The collection contains diverse types of maps and plans, such as sewer plans, topographic plans, site plans, latitudinal and longitudinal plans, water main plans, street maps, and landscape plans. The collection is particularly strong in topographic plans, covering the entire region, and structural...
Dates: 1952 December 2

Schuylkill Expressway. Plan placing upon city plans nos. 44, 106, 109, 191 of the Schuylkill Expressway from Arch Street to Black Road revising the lines and grades of Schuylkill Avenue west from Arch Street to Spring Garden Street and striking from the City Plan and vacating the legally open portions lying outside the lines of the Schuylkill Expressway of Schuylkill Avenue west from Arch Street to Spring Garden Street: Sheet no. 3 of 11; sheet no. 4 of 11; sheet no. 5 of 11; sheet no. 6 of 11; sheet no. 7 of 11; sheet no. 8 of 11; sheet no. 9 of 11; sheet no. 10 of 11; sheet no. 11 of 11 [reproduction], 1959 May 1

 Item — Drawer Fb, Folder: 2.1
Scope and Contents note From the Collection: This collection contains a variety of maps, plans and drawings relating to East and West Fairmount Park. Materials included in the collection are blueprints, bluelines, linens, mylars and paper. The collection contains diverse types of maps and plans, such as sewer plans, topographic plans, site plans, latitudinal and longitudinal plans, water main plans, street maps, and landscape plans. The collection is particularly strong in topographic plans, covering the entire region, and structural...
Dates: 1959 May 1

Schuylkill Expressway plan showing proposed improvements necessary to alleviate erosion, 1959 August 5

 Item — Drawer F15c, Folder: 1.1
Scope and Contents note From the Collection: This collection contains a variety of maps, plans and drawings relating to East and West Fairmount Park. Materials included in the collection are blueprints, bluelines, linens, mylars and paper. The collection contains diverse types of maps and plans, such as sewer plans, topographic plans, site plans, latitudinal and longitudinal plans, water main plans, street maps, and landscape plans. The collection is particularly strong in topographic plans, covering the entire region, and structural...
Dates: 1959 August 5

Schuylkill Expressway plan showing the eroded area on west side of ramp no. 3, north of Girard Avenue, 1959 August 6

 Item — Drawer F15c, Folder: 1.3
Scope and Contents note From the Collection: This collection contains a variety of maps, plans and drawings relating to East and West Fairmount Park. Materials included in the collection are blueprints, bluelines, linens, mylars and paper. The collection contains diverse types of maps and plans, such as sewer plans, topographic plans, site plans, latitudinal and longitudinal plans, water main plans, street maps, and landscape plans. The collection is particularly strong in topographic plans, covering the entire region, and structural...
Dates: 1959 August 6

West Fairmount Park, Schuylkill Expressway: History - articles and memos, c. 1960

 File — Drawer 5-5
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The History Files collection contains research materials documenting parks, sites, structures, organizations, events, and individuals associated with the Fairmount Park System and Philadelphia Parks and Recreation. This collection compiles materials from diverse sources over time rather than representing the records of a single office or individual. Typical materials include correspondence, deeds, leases, newspaper clippings, photocopies of published articles and book excerpts, research...
Dates: c. 1960