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Author: Jim Murphy
Publisher: Temple University Press
Published: 2021-06-18
Total Pages: 262
ISBN-13: 1439919240
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"An alternative, history-focused guidebook to a selection of Philadelphia's heroes and notable places"--
Author: Joseph E. B. Elliott
Publisher: Temple University Press
Published: 2017-10-13
Total Pages: 193
ISBN-13: 1439913005
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPhiladelphia possesses an exceptionally large number of places that have almost disappeared—from workshops and factories to sporting clubs and societies, synagogues, churches, theaters, and railroad lines. In Philadelphia: Finding the Hidden City, urban observers Nathaniel Popkin and Peter Woodall uncover the contemporary essence of one of America’s oldest cities. Working with accomplished architectural photographer Joseph Elliott, they explore secret places in familiar locations, such as the Metropolitan Opera House on North Broad Street, the Divine Lorraine Hotel, Reading Railroad, Disston Saw Works in Tacony, and mysterious parts of City Hall. Much of the real Philadelphia is concealed behind facades. Philadelphia artfully reveals its urban secrets. Rather than a nostalgic elegy to loss and urban decline, Philadelphia exposes the city’s vivid layers and living ruins. The authors connect Philadelphia’s idiosyncratic history, culture, and people to develop an alternative theory of American urbanism, and place the city in American urban history. The journey here is as much visual as it is literary; Joseph Elliott’s sumptuous photographs reveal the city's elemental beauty.
Author: Gary B. Nash
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 2006-04-05
Total Pages: 394
ISBN-13: 0812219422
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCovering more than two centuries of social, economic, and political change, and offering a challenging, innovative approach to urban as well national history, First City tells the Philadelphia story through the wealth of material culture its citizens have chosen to preserve.
Author: The Print and Photograph Department of the Library Company of Philadelphia
Publisher: Red Wheel/Weiser
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 134
ISBN-13: 9780738544922
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPhiladelphia, as laid out in the 1680s, extended from the Delaware River to the Schuylkill River and from Vine Street to South Street, an area known today as Center City. As its population grew, the settled areas expanded westward from the Delaware River beyond early important landmarks such as Christ Church, the Pennsylvania State House, and Pennsylvania Hospital. By the mid-19th century, commercial, religious, and cultural institutions arose along Broad Street, and exclusive residential neighborhoods developed even farther west in areas previously undeveloped or used as industrial sites. Bustling shopping districts anchored by stores such as Wanamaker's Grand Depot and Strawbridge and Clothier ran for blocks along Chestnut and Market Streets. Center City Philadelphia in the 19th Century highlights the buildings, people, and activities of this area from the 1840s until the end of the century.
Author: Robert Morris Skaler
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Published: 2002-03-01
Total Pages: 132
ISBN-13: 9780738509709
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe many neighborhoods west of the Schuylkill River across from William Penn's "Quaker City" were distinctly rural until 1860, when horsecar lines first crossed the river. The area soon became home to wealthy businessmen who built elegant mansions and villas in University City and Powelton Village. West Philadelphia's growth accelerated northward into Belmont and Parkside-Girard after the 1876 Centennial Exposition and westward into Cedar Park, Spruce Hill, and Walnut Hill in the 1890s with the introduction of electric trolley lines. West Philadelphia: University City to 52nd Street is the first photographic history of the area in the last one hundred years. Images of the typical, modest West Philadelphia row houses, which slowly took over the open farmland after the Market Street Elevated opened in 1907, tell the story of how Philadelphia became known as the "City of Homes." Countless, rarely seen photographs of the streets where people lived and worked fill this extraordinary history.
Author: John Andrew Gallery
Publisher: Center for Architecture
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780979378706
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWalking guide and history of planning in Philadelphia, America's first capital. For tourists/architecture buffs.
Author: Joseph Minardi
Publisher:
Published: 2020-10-28
Total Pages: 176
ISBN-13: 9780764360596
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book covers the 20 years that transformed Philadelphia into a city of neighborhoods, from Kingsessing to Wissahickon. At the turn of the 20th century, Philadelphia was the "workshop of the world," with builders toiling tirelessly to fill the staggering demand for housing. This golden age of construction resulted in whole new neighborhoods for the city's burgeoning population, transforming it into a place where immigrants could easily find jobs and a community to call their own. More than 200 vintage photos and postcards whisk readers back to the neighborhoods as they once were, exactly as our grandparents and great-grandparents knew them, before modern influences altered them beyond recognition. Arranged by neighborhood, this Philadelphia family album, a scrapbook for the city, is filled with rare vintage photographs and comprehensive information about the houses, the builders, the neighborhoods, and the people who lived in them.
Author: John Andrew Gallery
Publisher:
Published: 2016
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781589881105
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis updated, comprehensive guide to Philadelphia's architecture will appeal to visitors, residents, and architecture enthusiasts.
Author: Bruce Laurie
Publisher:
Published: 1980
Total Pages: 296
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLooks at the contours of working-class cultures in antebellum Philadelphia.
Author: Rand McNally
Publisher:
Published: 2005
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 9780528855832
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCD-ROM contains: Page-by-page digital version of the atlas, with features such as map navigation, address lookup, map point query, and custom point creation.
