Excerpt from Philadelphia and the Centennial, How to See Them: A Complete Pocket Guide for Residents and Strangers During the Centennial Exhibition Like the other little guide-bobks in this series, New York City and Washington, this is intended to be a compact arrangement of facts for residents of Philadelphia and visitors during the Centennial period. More than this it does not pretend to be, but the attempt to produce a complete handbook, in the most portable shape, for the pocket or the satchel, it is believed has been reasonably accomplished in the work here presented. Accuracy of statement, simplicity of direction, with a reasonable attention to detail, and not elaborate de scription, have been the purposes of the plan. Profuse illustration has been avoided, the space being considered more valuable for letter-press. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.