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Custis, John Trevor. The Public Schools of Philadelphia, Historical, Biographical, Statistical. Philadelphia: Burk & McFetridge Co., 1897., p. 429-431

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Project name: George W. Childs School

Project types: school

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17th Street near TASKER ST
Philadelphia, PA

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This building was within the twenty-sixth section: "The boundaries of the Twenty-sixth Ward of the City of Philadelphia, which comprises the Twenty-sixth Section of the First School District of Pennsylvania, are Passyunk Avenue and Ellsworth Street, along Passyunk Avenue to Broad Street, to Back Channel, to Eighteenth Street, to Washington Avenue, to Broad Street, to Ellsworth Street, to Passyunk Avenue," (Curtis, p. 429).

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[George W. Childs School] George W. Childs Combined Grammar, Secondary and Primary School,/Seventeenth and Tasker Streets./Twenty-sixth Section. Local ID #: 431 Custis, John Trevor. The Public Schools of Philadelphia, Historical, Biographical, Statistical. Philadelphia: Burk & McFetridge Co., 1897., p. 429-431

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