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Author | : Louis M. Iatarola |
Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages | : 100 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780738556628 |
As fields and estates in post-World War II Northeast Philadelphia gave way to the construction of new houses, traditional neighborhoods changed as new communities and shopping districts emerged.
Author | : Louis M. Latarola |
Publisher | : Arcadia Library Editions |
Total Pages | : 130 |
Release | : 2005-06 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781531622152 |
In the early part of the twentieth century, as traditional communities in Philadelphia that had been swallowed up by the Consolation Act of 1854 grew more dense, an area known as Northeast Philadelphia came into its own. Development of Roosevelt Boulevard, the Market-Frankford Elevated Railway, and the Tacony-Palmyra Bridge facilitated access to large swaths of undeveloped land. Lower Northeast Philadelphia focuses on the area following the path of the Delaware River north to the city limits at the Poquessing Creek and also along and between the Frankford and Pennypack Creeks. Most of Northeast Philadelphia developed much later than the rest of the city, but the area now possesses the same "town of neighborhoods" feel each with a unique character and history.
Author | : Dr. Harry C. Silcox |
Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages | : 161 |
Release | : 2009-11-27 |
Genre | : Photography |
ISBN | : 1625843186 |
Northeast Philadelphia chronicles this area's history of transformation, from scattered communities to an urban center. Before the Consolidation Act of 1854 more than tripled the former capital's population, Northeast Philadelphia was a scattered group of pastoral communities just beyond the city limits. Holmesburg, Somerton and other small villages initially struggled but ultimately triumphed in their transition from rural townships to a bustling urban center. Dr. Harry C. Silcox has collaborated with Frank W. Hollingsworth to chart this fascinating evolution, from the demise of the family farm to neighbors uniting on the homefront during World War II. With such lively characters as Mary Disston, the founding mother of Tacony, and tales of the local effort for suffrage, Silcox and Hollingsworth create a brilliant and affectionate portrait of Northeast Philadelphia.
Author | : Children's Commission (Philadelphia, Pa.) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 17 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Children |
ISBN | : |
Author | : New City Press |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 204 |
Release | : 2002-07 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780971299634 |
Students in the Spring 2002 Community Publishing class at Temple University participated in an oral history project focused on capturing stories from the Forgotten Bottom neighborhood in South Philadelphia. The life histories of many of the community's residents have been collected as interviews in this book.
Author | : Allen F. Davis |
Publisher | : University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 1998-10-29 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780812216707 |
Although much has been written about elite Philadelphians, only in recent decades have historians paid attention to the Jews and working-class blacks, the immigrant Irish, Italians, and Poles who settled in the city and gave such sections as Moyamensing, Southwark, South Philadelphia, and Kensington their vitality. In this classic of social and ethnic history, the authors draw on census schedules, court records, city directories, and tax records as well as newspaper files and other sources to give a picture of the ways in which these less-privileged groups of Philadelphians lived. What emerges is a picture of Philadelphia radically different from the conventional portrait of a staid old city.
Author | : Carolyn Adams |
Publisher | : Temple University Press |
Total Pages | : 230 |
Release | : 1993-03 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9781566390781 |
Philadelphia is a patchwork of the political and economic changes dating back to 1683. Having been re-created repeatedly, each era of the city's development includes elements of the past. In this book, the authors describe the city's evolution into a post-industrial metropolis of old communities and newly expended neighborhoods, in which remnants of 19th-century industries can be seen in today's residential areas. This book explores a wide range of issues impacting upon Philadelphia's post-industrial economy--trends in housing and homelessness, the business community, job distribution, a disintegrating political structure, and increased racial, class, and neighborhood conflict. The authors examine the growth of the service sector, the disparity in the city's urban renewal program that has enriched center city but left most neighborhoods in need, and they evaluate the realistic prospects for regional solutions to some of the problems facing Philadelphia and its suburbs. Author note: Carolyn Adams teaches in the Geography and Urban Studies Department at Temple University. David Bartelt teaches at the Institute for Public Policy Studies at Temple University. David Elesh is Professor of Sociology, Temple University. Ira Goldstein teaches at the Institute for Public Policy Studies, Temple University. Nancy Kleniewski teaches Sociology at State University of New York, Geneseo. William Yancey is Professor of Sociology, Temple University.
Author | : Nathaniel Popkin |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 148 |
Release | : 2020-12 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 9780999550168 |
Author | : City History Society of Philadelphia |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 544 |
Release | : 1917 |
Genre | : Philadelphia |
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Author | : Allen Meyers |
Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages | : 132 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780738508542 |
The Jewish community of Philadelphia west of the Schuylkill River is a composite of seven distinct neighborhoods surrounding West Philadelphia proper. These include Fortieth and Girard, Parkside, Wynnefield, Overbrook Park, Wynnefield Heights, Southwest Philly, and Island Road. A gathering of seventy-five thousand Jewish people in West Philadelphia during the twentieth century qualified the area known as "a city within a city" as a second settlement area. Excellent public transportation included the famed Market Street Elevated. The West Philadelphia Jews flourished and supported dozens of synagogues and bakeries, and more than one hundred kosher butcher shops at the neighborhood's height from the 1930s through the 1950s. Newly arrived immigrants embraced traditional Jewish values, which led them to encourage their offspring to acquire a secondary education in their own neighborhoods as a way of achieving assimilation into the community at large. The Jewish Community of West Philadelphia portrays Jewish life throughout West Philadelphia in the mid-twentieth century. The book captures rare, nearly forgotten images with photographs gleaned from the community at large.