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Penn Street through the years
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Penn Street Penn Street Reading Pennsylvania looking east from near what is now Fourth Street, around 1870.
Penn Street Penn Street Reading Pennsylvania looking east, around 1880. A horse drawn trolley crosses Penn Square traveling south on what is now Fifth Street.
Penn Street Penn Street Reading Pennsylvania, around 1890. Looking east from what is now Sixth Street.
Penn Street Penn Street Reading Pennsylvania, around 1900. Looking east from what is now Fourth Street.
Penn Street Penn Street Reading Pennsylvania, around 1910.
Penn Street Penn Square, looking east from Fourth Street, around 1923.
Penn Street Penn Street Reading Pennsylvania, around 1975. Looking east from Fifth street.

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