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Philadelphia in Photographs

Author : Edward Arthur Mauger
Publisher : Gramercy
ISBN 13 : 9780517228746
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (287 download)

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Download or read book Philadelphia in Photographs written by Edward Arthur Mauger and published by Gramercy. This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Philadelphia, America's first capital, is hostorically the most important city in the United States. It was here that William Penn insisted on "liberty of conscience" for his colony, that the founding fathers signed the Constitution, that the United States' first museums and centers of learning were founded, and the wheels of teh nation's industry began to turn. Philadelphia in Photographstakes a visual tour of the city, its beautiful parks, and natural surroundings. Beginning in the Old City, with attractions such as Elfreth's Alley—the United States' oldest residential street—and the Betsy Ross House, where the first Stars and Stripes is said to have been sewn, it visits all of Philadelphia's most celebrated locations. Within its pages are the stories of men such as George Washington and Benjamin Franklin who helped forge a new nation. Philadelphia in Photographsincludes spectacular images that take in the elegance of Society Hill with its quaint cobblestone lanes, the pastoral pleasures of Fairmount Park, the righ culture of Parkway and the Avenue of Arts, as well as sights further afield, such as Frank Lloyd Wright's amazing architectural prayer, the Beth Shalom Synagogue. As rich in beautiful photography as the city is in history,Philadelphia in Photographsis a superb celebration of the city of brotherly love.

Old Philadelphia in Early Photographs 1839-1914

Author : Robert F. Looney
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486317838
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (863 download)

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Download or read book Old Philadelphia in Early Photographs 1839-1914 written by Robert F. Looney and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2013-07-04 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 215 rare vintage views — from first daguerreotype made in America (1839) to eve of World War I — capture the charm of yesteryear: panoramas, street scenes, landmarks, Lincoln's visit, 1876 Centennial Exposition, more.

Historic Photos of Philadelphia

Author : Laura E. Beardsley
Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 1596523069
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (965 download)

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Download or read book Historic Photos of Philadelphia written by Laura E. Beardsley and published by Turner Publishing Company. This book was released on 2006 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historic Photos of Philadelphia captures the City of Brotherly Love"" past through photographs from the city's finest archives. From the Civil War period, to the turn of the century, to the building of a modern metropolis, Historic Photos of Philadelphia follows life, government, education, and events from its extensive history. This book captures unique and rare scenes through the original lens of about 200 historic photographs. Published in striking black and white photography, these images communicate historic events and every day life of two centuries of people building a unique and prosperous city.""

Philadelphia Stories

Author : Fredric Miller
Publisher : Temple University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780877225515
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (255 download)

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Download or read book Philadelphia Stories written by Fredric Miller and published by Temple University Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Philadelphia Stories is a kind of family album. As in their earlier volume, Still Philadelphia: A Photographic History, 1890-1940, Miller, Vogel, and Davis have collected photographs of ordinary lives and daily events from 1920 to 1960 that have shaped the collective memory of people in the Philadelphia area. Through a series of photo essays, Philadelphia Stories evokes the mood of an era that embraced the Great Depression, World War II, the Cold War, and the complacent prosperity of the 1950s. Contemporary photos document physical changes in the metropolitan area: the developing skyline, the streets of rowhouses, the expanding suburbs. Details on homelife, food prices, school activities, local politics, shopping, social mores, and neighborhood customs chronicle experiences that are in many ways distinct to Philadelphians but also indicative of dramatic social, political, and economic shifts in the United States over forty years. Using photojournalism as the dominant style of documentary photography—and consciousness making—the book also features three prototypical family albums. These collections of snapshots taken by local residents to record weddings, holidays, and other family events not only depict how people saw themselves at various times but reveal the kinds of memories they wanted to keep. While major national events create the context for this social history, the book focuses on the daily lives of Philadelphians: as they cope with the Depression, participate in New Deal programs, buy automobiles and television sets, grow Victory Gardens, hold air raid drills, visit the Freedom Train, move to the suburbs, cling to old neighborhoods, and maintain tradition amid flux.Philadelphia Stories celebrates the recent past in the words and images of those who experienced it. It is a family album for all who know and love the city. Author note: Fredric M. Miller is Curator of the Urban Archives Center, Paley Library, Temple University.Morris J. Vogel is Professor of History, Temple University.Allen F. Davis is Professor of History, Temple University.

Still Philadelphia

Author : Fredric Miller
Publisher : Temple University Press
ISBN 13 : 1439907617
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (399 download)

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Download or read book Still Philadelphia written by Fredric Miller and published by Temple University Press. This book was released on 2011-02-02 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a book about Philadelphia and about photography, but it is not the usual book about either. On one level, this is the pictorial story of a great industrial metropolis in transition. It is the story of a railroad city, a city of trolleys and subways and horse-drawn vehicles, as it gradually succumbed to the automobile. It is the story of a city filled with neighborhood industry giving way to suburbs, to commuter travel, and to a change in the very nature of work. It is the story of a city spreading out, expanding and doubling in population in fifty years. It is the story of urban exuberance and vitality where ethnic groups mixed and mingled, but it is also the story of slums and poverty, crime and conflict. A Philadelphia family album, filled with pictures of ordinary people, Still Philadelphia focuses on the city of immigrants and industry, not on the lives and houses of the wealthy.

Philadelphia Then and Now

Author : Kenneth Finkel
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9780486257907
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (579 download)

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Download or read book Philadelphia Then and Now written by Kenneth Finkel and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1988-01-01 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rare photographs of City Hall, Logan Square, Independence Hall, Betsy Ross House, other landmarks juxtaposed with contemporary views. Introduction. Captions.

Kensington Blues

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780692753330
Total Pages : 167 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (533 download)

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Download or read book Kensington Blues written by and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Mütter Museum

Author : Mütter Museum
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mütter Museum written by Mütter Museum and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book on the Mütter Museum contain artful images of the museum's fascinating exhibits shot by contemporary fine art photographers. Here, the focus is on the museum's archive of rare historic photographs, most of which have never been seen by the public. Featured are poignant, aesthetically accomplished works ranging from Civil War photographs showing injury and recovery, to the ravages of diseases not yet conquered in the 19th century, to pathological anomalies, to psychological disorders. Many were taken by talented photographers between the 1860s and the 1940s as records for physicians to share among colleagues and to track patients' conditions, and demonstrate various techniques used in medical photography including the daguerreotype, micrography, X ray, and traditional portrait-style photography. As visual documents of what humans endured in the face of limited medical knowledge, these extraordinary and haunting photographs demonstrate how far medicine has advanced.

Nineteenth-Century Photography in Philadelphia

Author : Kenneth Finkel
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780844657622
Total Pages : 23 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (576 download)

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Download or read book Nineteenth-Century Photography in Philadelphia written by Kenneth Finkel and published by . This book was released on 1981-01-01 with total page 23 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Ditta Baron Hoeber

Author : Olivia Jia
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781736415306
Total Pages : 25 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (153 download)

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Download or read book Ditta Baron Hoeber written by Olivia Jia and published by . This book was released on 2021-03 with total page 25 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of seven essays and various examples of the work of Ditta Baron Hoeber.

Philadelphia Then and Now

Author : Edward Arthur Mauger
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781571458803
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (588 download)

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Download or read book Philadelphia Then and Now written by Edward Arthur Mauger and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This oversized edition takes a look at the history of Philadelphia, from Independence Hall to Society Hill, with both modern and historic photography and captions describing the development of this famous city. 140 photos.

Nineteenth-century Photography in Philadelphia

Author : Library Company of Philadelphia
Publisher : Constable
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Nineteenth-century Photography in Philadelphia written by Library Company of Philadelphia and published by Constable. This book was released on 1980 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

True Crime Philadelphia

Author : Kathryn Canavan
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1493036165
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book True Crime Philadelphia written by Kathryn Canavan and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-11-15 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Serial killer H.H. Holmes built his murder castle in Chicago, but he met the hangman in Philadelphia. Al Capone served his first prison sentence here. The real-life killers who inspired HBO’s Boardwalk Empire lived and died here. America’s first bank robbery was pulled off here in 1798. The country’s first kidnapping for ransom came off without a hitch in 1874. A South Philadelphia man hatched the largest mass murder plot in U.S. history in the 1930s. His partners in crime were unhappy housewives. Catholics and Protestants aimed cannon at each other in city streets in 1844. Civil rights hero Octavius V. Catto was gunned down on South Street in 1871. Take a walk with us through city history. Would you pass Eastern State Penitentiary on April 3, 1945, just as famed bank robber Willie Sutton popped out of an escape tunnel in broad daylight? Or you might have been one of the invited guests at H.H. Holmes’ hanging at Moyamensing Prison on a gray morning in May 1896. It still ranks as one of the most bizarre executions in city history. Or, if you walked down Washington Lane on July 1, 1874, would you have been alert enough to stop the two men who lured little blond Charley Ross away with candy? You might have stopped America’s first kidnapping for ransom, the one that gave rise to the admonition, “Never take candy from a stranger.” The case inspired the Leopold and Loeb kidnapping. Then there was the bank robber whose funeral drew thousands of spectators and the burglary defendant so alluring that conversation would stop whenever she entered the courtroom. Mix in murderous maids, bumbling burglars, and unflinching local heroes and you have True Crime Philadelphia.

Emmet Gowin

Author : Emmet Gowin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9783865218636
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (186 download)

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Download or read book Emmet Gowin written by Emmet Gowin and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: in 1964, I entered into a family freshly different from my own. I admired their simplicity and generosity, and thought of the pictures I made as agreements. I wanted to pay attention to the body and personality that had agreed out of love to reveal itself. Following his marriage to Edith Morris in 1964, Emmet Gowin began taking memorable portraits of his wife and extended family in Virginia. Emmet Gowin Photographs presents a collection of 68 of these images, accompanied by a short personal text by the photographer. Inspired by the work of Walker Evans, Robert Frank, Harry Callahan and Frederick Sommer, Gowin approaches his subjects with a reverence for the relationship between photographer and sitter. Although his photographs often resemble home snapshots, he aspires to take pictures that succeed as more than just family records, in some cases allowing the camera lens to dictate the circular shape of the image. Emmet Gowin Photographs was first published in 1976 by Alfred A. Knopf, New York. For the production of the 2009 edition the photographs were scanned at Steidls digital darkroom from vintage prints. Without changing the size of the images, the book format was slightly increased.

Jennings' Philadelphia

Author : Harry C. Silcox
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jennings' Philadelphia written by Harry C. Silcox and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Searching for Philadelphia

Author : David S. Traub
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781933822785
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (227 download)

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Download or read book Searching for Philadelphia written by David S. Traub and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Searching for Philadelphia utilizes photographs to bring awareness of the many largely hidden and unexpected architectural treasures the city has to offer. Most of these would likely be missed except by the curious and alert pedestrian. The book is made up of seven distinct sections: Alluring Entryways, Narrow Streets, Walkways, Hidden Courtyards, Secret Gardens, Tiny Parks, and Unnoticed Builidings. A photographic collection to be enjoyed for many years to come, Searching for Philadelphia gives recognition to the overlooked views that lend exceptional character and a human dimension to a great American city.

In Plain Sight

Author :
Publisher : Camino Books
ISBN 13 : 9781680980387
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (83 download)

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Download or read book In Plain Sight written by and published by Camino Books. This book was released on 2020 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Philadelphia is thought to have the oldest and largest collection of public art in the country. Some of the works are in prominent locations and have become tourist destinations, much like the Liberty Bell or the Rocky statue. Other works of art define particular neighborhoods, parks and personalities. There are over 3,000 murals spread throughout Philly. It's an extraordinary number, but here, the extraordinary has become an ordinary part of life. These treasured works of art are so neatly woven into the fabric of the city, and have become so commonplace, that life simply moves around them. The art forms a backdrop to everyday activities. Some of these works are beautiful, some are powerful, and some serve as monuments to great figures, while still others were created to stir our imagination and curiosity. Each photograph in this book represents a moment in time when photographer Ed Hille was able to fulfill his purpose of helping people to appreciate and see new angles of the city and the art that surrounds them. This book is not just about the art on display, but also about the many ways in which we experience the art. It's a testament to Philadelphia, a city that has committed significant resources to creating and preserving public art"--