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Downtown: 1939

Spring 1939. "Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Downtown buildings near Walnut and Broad streets, looking east." Medium format nitrate negative by Paul Vanderbilt for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.

Spring 1939. "Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Downtown buildings near Walnut and Broad streets, looking east." Medium format nitrate negative by Paul Vanderbilt for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.

 

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The tall building with domes in the center of the photo is still standing. It is the Hyatt at Bellevue, formerly the Bellevue-Stratford Hotel at Broad & Walnut Streets.

The hotel received negative press when the American Legion held their convention there in 1976. Many were sickened with a pneumonia-like disease and died from what became known as "Legionnaires' Disease".

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