Event – Detail Past

A selection of The Athenaeum's collection of Horn & Hardart drawings, photographs and postcards will be on display in the Reading Room. The first Automat opened in Philadelphia on June 9, 1902 at 820 Chestnut Street.

Also, purchase a ticket for our screening of The Automat film on June 22.

Commerce Graphics, Ltd., “Automat, New York, 1936,” Robert M. Skaler Postcard Collection, Athenaeum of Philadelphia