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