*Northwest Center City: This section runs from horizontally from 30th street to 15th Street, and vertically from Vine Street to Market Street.

Below is a list of pieces from Kennedy's collection depicting places in Northwest Center City:

K : 1 - 40 Watercolor; 10.5 x 22 cm Logan Square, 1836.
K : 1 - 52 Watercolor; 12.7 x 23 cm North and Southwest corner of Schuylkill
    Eighth and Race Sts., 1836
K : 1 - 86 Watercolor; 14.2 x 27.4 cm Arch Street from Schuylkill Eighth to Schuylkill Sixth, 1839.
K : 1 - 104.1 Watercolor 8.8 x 13.6 cm Northeast corner of Sixteenth and Race Streets, 1860.
K : 1 - 110.2 Watercolor; 12.1 x 31.4 cm Arch Street and the Southeast corner of Twentieth St., 1864.
K : 1 - 110.3 Watercolor; 9.2 x 14.9 cm South side of Arch Street, West of Twentieth Street, Mr. Coleman’s Bolt Factory, 1863.
K : 1 - 124.3 Watercolor; 12.3 x 19.8 cm South side of Arch between Schuylkill Seventh and Eighth, 1839.
K : 2 - 49 Watercolor; 16.7 x 26.8 cm Broad St., East side from Race to Cherry Street, 1842. Westchester Hotel & Office of the Westchester R.R. Co.
K : 3 - 35 Watercolor; 16.5 x 25.5 cm Northwest corner of Market and Sixteenth Streets, 1871.
K : 4 - 77.2 Watercolor; 8.5 x 18.5 cm Arch Street, north side west of Eighteenth Street, 1836.
K : 5 - 41 Watercolor; 19.4 x 30.9 cm Northeast corner of Broad and Filbert Streets, 1868.”
K : 5 - 57 Watercolor; 14.7 x 26.3 cm Southwest corner of Twenty-first and Arch Streets, 1864.
K : 5 - 61 Watercolor; 14.4 x 25.7 cm Southwest corner of Sixteenth and Filbert Streets.
K : 5 - 68.2 Watercolor; 8.6 x 16 cm South side of Arch Street west of Nineteenth Street, 1849.
K : 6 - 84 Watercolor; 9.4 x 14 cm Southeast corner of Twenty-first and Market Streets, 1863.
K : 7 - 1 Watercolor; 14.4 x 21.9 cm Southwest corner of Filbert and Seventeenth Streets, 1879.
K : 8 - 111 Pencil sketch; 14.5 x 35.6 cm 16th & Arch Streets, 1838.
K : 8 - 24 Pencil sketch; 12 x 11.1 cm Hugh Smith’s corner, 16th & Race Streets, 1878, N.W. corner.
K : 8 - 25 Pencil sketch; 8.4 x 13.9 cm South side Race Street, East of 13th, 1868.
K : 11 - 2 Printed article; 24.5 x 18.3 cm Great Central Fair Buildings, Logan Square, Philadelphia, June, 1864.
K : 11 - 3 Print; 24.2 x18.5 cm Ground plan of the Great Central Sanitary Fair, Logan Square, Philadelphia, 1864.
K : II - 12 Watercolor; 15.6 x 31.3 cm The Old Arch Street Prison.

 

 

Fairmount Park: click here to view pieces from the Kennedy Collection depicting places within Fairmount Park

 

This park is located within Northwest Center City, and consists of 8,900 acres of green space. Click on the above link to see pictures from Kennedy's collection located within the boundaries of Fairmount Park.

more information about Fairmount Park:

http://www.ushistory.org/districts/fairmountpark/

http://www.experiencepa.com/experiencepa/details.do?name=Fairmount+Park

(above picture from http://www.phila.gov/fairpark/)

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