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Title: The street railway review
Year: 1891 (1890s)
Authors: American Street Railway Association Street Railway Accountants' Association of America American Railway, Mechanical, and Electrical Association
Subjects: Street-railroads
Publisher: Chicago : Street Railway Review Pub. Co
Contributing Library: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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illustrate commerce and in-dustry, education and the arts and sciences, of which the Commer-cial Museum has attained the broadest -and most rapid development.Comprehensive collections have been presented to the museum bynearly every country in the world whose products we import and towhose markets wc send our manufactures and among those displayedare those from Japan and China, Indo-China and Siam, Australiaand New Zealand, Oceania, British India and Burmah, the variouscolonies of Africa, the West Indies, Mexico, Central America, theArgentine Republic, Chile, Peru, Venezuela and other repuulics ofSouth America. A magnificent collection from the PhilippineIslands, comprising the first choice of the Philippine exhibit at theLouisiana Purchase Exposition, has been presented to the museumand is now being classified for installation. These collections areof special interest to the business men of the country as illustratingthe customs and resources of the various foreign peoples with whom
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PHIL..\DELPHI.\ COMMERCIAL MUSEUM amount received from manufacturers and others making systematicand continued use of its services is applied directly to enlarging thescope of its work and perfecting its facilities. The buildings of theinstitution include its business offices, library and executive branch,which occupy a large building on Fourth St., near Walnut. Hereare also displayed many samples of raw products and type samplesof foreign manufactured articles, collected in foreign countries forthe purpose of instructing American manufacturers as to the de-iTiands, requirements, and supply of many important markets. Lo-cated on the banks of the Schuylkill River, near South St., in WestPhiladelphia, the institution has 56 acres of ground, of which 16have been developed and on which are large and imposing buildings, they deal and offer to the student and the public an opportunitynever before enjoyed of studying at first-hand, subjects heretoforeaccessible only in text-books. With the p

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