Philadelphia (US-PA)

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Philadelphia (/ˌfɪləˈdɛlfiə/) is the largest city in the U.S. state and Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and the sixth-most populous U.S. city, with a 2017 census-estimated population of 1,580,863. Since 1854, the city has been coterminous with Philadelphia County, the most populous county in Pennsylvania and the urban core of the eighth-largest U.S. metropolitan statistical area, with over 6 million residents as of 2017. Philadelphia is also the economic and cultural anchor of the greater Delaware Valley, located along the lower Delaware and Schuylkill Rivers, within the Northeast megalopolis. The Delaware Valley's population of 7.2 million ranks it as the eighth-largest combined statistical area in the United States.

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Postmark Examples

Philadelphia PA:RECD (Recieved) cancel on 10c Due

Precancels

Precancel Philadelphia on Scott 300, Franklin. c.1903.

Precancel Philadelphia on Scott 684, Harding. c.1930.

Precancel Philadelphia on Scott 558, Garfield. c.1922.

Precancel Philadelphia on Scott 565, American Indian. c.1923.

Precancel Philadelphia on Scott 568, Niagara. c.1922.

Precancel Philadelphia on Scott 569, Buffalo. c.1923.

Precancel Philadelphia on Scott 803, Franklin. c.1938.

Precancel Philadelphia on Scott 805, Martha Washington. c.1938.

Precancel Philadelphia on Scott 806, Adams. c.1938.

Precancel Philadelphia on Scott 807, Jefferson. c.1938.

Precancel Philadelphia on Scott 808, Madison. c.1938.

Precancel Philadelphia on Scott 810, Monroe. c.1938.

Precancel Philadelphia on Scott 825, Garfield. c.1938.

Precancel Philadelphia on Scott 830, T.Roosevelt. c.1938.

Slogan cancels

Slogan cancel 1992

Meter cancels

Meter cancel Philadelphia 1939

Meter cancel Philadelphia 1940

Meter cancel Philadelphia 1943

Meter cancel Philadelphia 1950

Meter cancel Philadelphia 1954

Meter cancel Philadelphia 1961

Meter cancel Philadelphia 1962

Meter cancel Philadelphia 1957

Meter cancel Philadelphia 1981

20th century Covers and Cards

1932 North Philadelphia Station cover

Advertising cover for importer of Birds and Animals. Philadelphia to Magdeburg (DE) with two 2c Columbians and a 1c blue Franklin paying the 5c to Germany

PHILADELPHIA in 1950.	PHILADELPHIA in 1956.
200 years of Postal Services

19th century Covers and Cards

Octagonal cancel on a 1859 cover with four 12c. Proposed 4,000 DM in 1984.	Posted on Dec 21 in Philadelphia, PA. Pre-1861 with a 15 1/2 perf top & right side. 3c Scott #26 Type 3. Addressed in care of Capt Joseph J. Seawell who was born in Nov. 1831 and died on Oct. 5 1878 aged 46. He was enlisted in the Civil War with 51st Alabama Partisan Rangers Co. "I" and lost a leg at the Battle of Farmington, Tennessee. Philadelphia Octagonal cancel.
Duplex Postmark: PHILAD'A-PA. MAR 18. 1864 cover to West Chester, Pennsylvania.	Duplex Cancel Philadelphia 1883, Postal Card sent from Philadelphia-1 (Pa) to Trenton (N.J.)
Duplex Cancel Philadelphia 1884, Postal Card sent from Philadelphia-7 (Pa) to Beech Creek in Philadelphia.	PHILADELPHIA 4 on Morgan's Louisiana and Texas Railroad and Steamship Company. Posted c1880 at Philadelphia to Burlington County, New Jersey.
PHILADELPHIA 2 on cover to New Haven, Connecticut

Railway

Spring Garden Station

Spring Garden Street station is a former train station in the Poplar neighborhood of Philadelphia. It was built by the Reading Railroad and located on the Reading Viaduct. Service to Spring Garden Street ended in 1984 with the opening of the Center City Commuter Connection, which bypassed the Reading Terminal.

SPRING GARDEN STATION PHILA. P.A. #3 cancel on 2c Stationery

Spring Garden Street was built adjacent to the old Philadelphia, Germantown and Norristown Railroad depot at Ninth and Green, which had opened in 1851. Ninth and Green had been the primary Philadelphia terminal of the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad since 1879 and the Reading had outgrown the facility. To replace it, the Reading constructed the Reading Terminal on Market Street, roughly 1 mile (1.6 km) to the south. Reading Terminal was linked to the existing railway line by a new elevated route carried by the Reading Viaduct. Spring Garden Street was built to serve the elevated route. Both it and Reading Terminal opened on January 29, 1893, although the Spring Garden Street station building was not completed and tickets had to be purchased at Ninth and Green. Ninth and Green would remain open as a freight-only building until 1909, when it was demolished to permit additional track elevation.

Spring Garden Street remained in use until 1984, when the new Center City Commuter Connection opened.