City - PA Philadelphia - Broad Street 1905 - Side by Side

by Mike Savad

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City - PA Philadelphia - Broad Street 1905 - Side by Side

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Mike Savad

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Photograph - Colorized Photo

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Colorized photo from 1905
Original title: Broad St.
Location: Broad Street at Spruce St, PA

Many buildings you see here still exist today. The center most building, city hall, is there, but the colors are different. Old images showed the top as brown, I think its because its made of copper, it was built in 1901, and that amount of time, the copper would look brown.

I had to find a lot of postcards for the other buildings, like the one on the right, the theatre. Those domes ranged from red, blue, and all green, I decided on a yellow and red theme, since I wanted it to pop a little bit, and there were clearly stripes of some kind. The building on the right with the towers, doesn't exist. But that hotel on the left does.

They gave a wide date range for this image. Ranging from 1894-1910. The building on the right was completed in 1896, the one on the left, the hotel, I read that they enlarged the height of it in 1910, but I got mixed messages on when it was completed. So my date might be off a little bit.

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August 18th, 2017

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