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Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book West Philadelphia Illustrated written by and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : M. Laffitte Vieira
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Total Pages : 74 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book West Philadelphia Illustrated written by M. Laffitte Vieira and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book West Philadelphia Illustrated written by and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Joseph Minardi
Publisher : Schiffer Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780764337710
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (377 download)
Download or read book Historic Architecture in West Philadelphia, 1789-1930s written by Joseph Minardi and published by Schiffer Publishing. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: West of the Schuylkill River, what was once Blockley and Kingsessing Townships is now West Philadelphia. Here is a comprehensive look at the rich architectural history of neighborhoods in and around University City and biographies of the architects who made it possible. In more than 500 images, see this area of the "City of Brotherly Love" transition from humble beginnings as a collection of sprawling farms and dusty hamlets to a streetcar suburb for upwardly mobile types looking to escape the old city and a haven for esteemed educational institutions. Packed with archival images, maps, and color photos, the book covers Cedar Park to Powelton Village, chronicling the charm and elegance found in West Philadelphia's architecture, much of which is still on public display. Examples include Second Empire, Victorian, Queen Anne, Collegiate Gothic, and Italianate styles. This is a global and historic review ideal for architects, urban planners, historians, and of course residents of Blockley and Kingsessing.
Author : Ivy Noelle Weir
Publisher : Little, Brown Ink
ISBN 13 : 0316459747
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (164 download)
Download or read book Anne of West Philly written by Ivy Noelle Weir and published by Little, Brown Ink. This book was released on 2022-03-01 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anne of Green Gables with a twist: in this follow-up to Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy and The Secret Garden on 81st Street, this full-color graphic novel moves Anne Shirley to modern-day West Philadelphia, where where she finds new friends, new rivals, and a new family. When Marilla and Matthew Cuthbert decide to foster a teenage girl for the first time, their lives are changed forever. Their redheaded foster daughter, Anne Shirley, is in search of an exciting life and has decided that West Philly is where she's going to find it. Armed with a big personality and unstoppable creativity, Anne takes her new home by storm as she joins the robotics club, makes new friends in Diana and Gilbert, experiences first love, and turns the ordinary into the extraordinary. But as Anne starts to get comfortable, she discovers one thing she wasn't looking for: a family. This title will be simultaneously available in hardcover.
Author : Joseph Minardi
Publisher : Schiffer Pub Limited
ISBN 13 : 9780764341984
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (419 download)
Download or read book Historic Architecture in Northwest Philadelphia written by Joseph Minardi and published by Schiffer Pub Limited. This book was released on 2012 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historic Architecture in Northwest Philadelphia is a colorful and comprehensive look at the rich architectural history of the Wissahickon Valley, and the people who made it possible with a locally sourced building stone, the Wissahickon schist. The simple stone structures of Germantown's origins as a village of German immigrants laid the groundwork for the more elaborate buildings for Philadelphia's rising mercantile class that followed. From the colonial period to the 1930s, this architectural tour explores 450 structures, many still standing and well preserved, in the area from Wayne Junction in Germantown to Northwest Avenue in Chestnut Hill. A wide variety of architectural styles and influences are captured in nearly 750 modern day and archival images, including the Georgian, Colonial, and Federal styles of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries; the Revival of those styles and others; Italianate; Second Empire; and Romantic Eclecticism. This extensive architectural review is ideal for architects, historians, and residents of Northwest Philadelphia.
Author : Robert Morris Skaler
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780738509709
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (97 download)
Download or read book West Philadelphia written by Robert Morris Skaler and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2002-03-01 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 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 : Lawrence O'Toole
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1614237719
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (142 download)
Download or read book Fading Ads of Philadelphia written by Lawrence O'Toole and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2012-11-20 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Philadelphia's faded ads are history in plain sight. They are tangible remnants of changing neighborhoods and industries, and Fading Ads of Philadelphia presents a new way to view these forgotten urban stories. Join author and photographer Lawrence O'Toole as he explores these physical touchstones of the city's history--a sign for a bygone family business seen only from the elevated train tracks, the Gretz smokestack advertising the now defunct Kensington brewery and an ad for the Midtown Theater that is slowly reappearing from behind layers of whitewash. O'Toole re-creates this lost urban landscape as he hunts signs from Center City to the River Wards and from South Philadelphia to West Philadelphia. Through this stunningly illustrated book, urbanites will again view these too often overlooked ads--and their stories--with fresh eyes.
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Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (39 download)
Download or read book Magee's Illustrated Guide of Philadelphia and the Centennial Exhibition written by and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 158 pages
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Download or read book Philadelphia and Its Environs written by and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Gus Spector
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780738557441
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (574 download)
Download or read book Philadelphia Neighborhoods written by Gus Spector and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2008 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Philadelphia Neighborhoods, a compendium of historic views of the major residential sections of Philadelphia, presents a snapshot into the past when old neighborhoods were not so old and when currently established ones were as yet new construction. Through the medium of postcards, readers are invited back to an era before automobiles dominated the streets, before many city roads were paved, and when the local grocery store was not located in a mall. Using chapters divided into subsections that detail the various regions of North, South, Southwest, and West Philadelphia, as well as the "new" Northeast Philadelphia, the author chronicles the vibrant, diverse communities that have helped shape the city's rich history.
Author : Natalie Pompilio
Publisher : Reedy Press LLC
ISBN 13 : 1681063123
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (81 download)
Download or read book This Used to Be Philadelphia written by Natalie Pompilio and published by Reedy Press LLC. This book was released on 2021-04-01 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Philadelphia is thick with American firsts. Some—including the first zoo, first hospital, first public library, first university, first computer—are well known. Others are not and are here to be appreciated: Girl Scout cookies were originally baked by a commercial bakery here and “American Bandstand” was born in a West Philadelphia TV studio. This Used to Be Philadelphia goes deep inside the buildings, monuments, and familiar sights of the city to uncover its rich history, layer by layer. This book will introduce you to the city’s first residents, the Lenni Lenape, the tireless workers who made this “the Workshop of the World,” and the current residents who love all of these stories as told through the spaces they have filled. Learn how buildings from the 1876 World’s Fair, the first to be held in the U.S., are used today. Appreciate the city’s creative adaptive reuse projects, including a former technical school turned office space with a rooftop bar and the railroad headquarters that’s now artists’ studios. Take a colorful tour of the city’s bygone days with local sisters Natalie and Tricia Pompilio. You’ll never look at an old building in Philadelphia the same way again.
Author : William Wallace Weaver
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Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book West Philadelphia written by William Wallace Weaver and published by . This book was released on 1930 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ivy Noelle Weir
Publisher : Little, Brown Ink
ISBN 13 : 0316459682
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (164 download)
Download or read book The Secret Garden on 81st Street written by Ivy Noelle Weir and published by Little, Brown Ink. This book was released on 2021-10-19 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Secret Garden with a twist: in this follow-up to Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy, this full-color graphic novel moves Mary Lennox to a New York City brownstone, where she and her very first group of friends restore an abandoned rooftop garden...and her uncle's heart. Mary Lennox is a loner living in Silicon Valley. With her parents always working, video game and tech become her main source of entertainment and "friends." When her parents pass away in a tragic accident, she moves to New York City to live with her uncle who she barely knows, and to her surprise, keeps a gadget free home. Looking for comfort in this strange, new reality, Mary discovers an abandoned rooftop garden and an even bigger secret...her cousin who suffers from anxiety. With the help of her new friends, Colin and Dickon, Mary works to restore the garden to its former glory while also learning to grieve, build real friendships, and grow. This title will be simultaneously available in paperback.
Author : Robert Morris Skaler
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780738557434
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (574 download)
Download or read book Philadelphia's Rittenhouse Square written by Robert Morris Skaler and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2008 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the Gilded Age, Rittenhouse Square was home to Philadelphia's high society, with more millionaires per square foot than any other American neighborhood except New York's Fifth Avenue. Established by William Penn in 1682 as the South-West Square and renamed after astronomer David Rittenhouse in 1825, Rittenhouse Square and its environs changed from an isolated district of brickyards and workers' shanties into the city's most elegant and elite neighborhood between 1845 and 1865. The brownstone and marble mansions on the square itself were inhabited by the city's wealthiest and most prestigious families, with names like Biddle, Cassatt, Drexel, Stotesbury, and Van Rensselaer. As Philadelphia's upper classes fled to the suburbs in the early 20th century, their mansions were replaced by skyscrapers or taken over by cultural institutions like the Philadelphia Art Alliance and the Curtis Institute of Music. While only a few original residences remain on Rittenhouse Square, it is still the center of a lively upscale neighborhood.
Author : Jim Wright
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ISBN 13 : 9780764359026
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (59 download)
Download or read book The Real James Bond written by Jim Wright and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An illustrated biography of the ornithologist James Bond, the author of the book Birds of the West Indies and the namesake of Ian Fleming's fictional British spy.
Author : Katy Friedland
Publisher : Temple University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781592139637
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (396 download)
Download or read book A is for Art Museum written by Katy Friedland and published by Temple University Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a different word and work of art involving that word for each letter of the alphabet and invites young readers to answer questions about each work of art.
