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Author | : Edward W. Duffy |
Publisher | : Camino Books Incorporated |
Total Pages | : 164 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781933822693 |
Philadelphia: A Railroad History describes the remarkable development of the railroad industry in Philadelphia and the intense competition that pitted the Pennsylvania Railroad against the Reading Railroad, and those two titans against the formidable Baltimore and Ohio Railroad to dominate the regional market. The book details the impact of the rail industry in the region's economy, the Philadelphia waterfront, and its port. It also highlights the key roles of the city's industrial giants during this colorful era, including Steven Girard, Matthias Baldwin, William Sellers, Franklin Gowen, John W. Garrett, George Roberts, and Edward G. Budd.
Author | : John Thomas Scharf |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 916 |
Release | : 1884 |
Genre | : Philadelphia (Pa.) |
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Author | : Gus Spector |
Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages | : 132 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780738557441 |
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 | : Roger D. Simon |
Publisher | : Temple University Press |
Total Pages | : 169 |
Release | : 2017-07 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1932304266 |
Establishing a community/ building an economy : beginnings to 1800 -- Community good/manufacturing city : 1800-1865 -- Industry triumphant/civic failure : 1865-1930 -- Economic decline/community turmoil : 1930-1980 -- Struggling toward the post-industrial city : 1980-2015
Author | : Russell Frank Weigley |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 870 |
Release | : 1982 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780393016109 |
In this, the definitive comprehensive history of Philadelphia, the reader will discover a rich and colorful portrait of one of America's most vital, interesting, and illustrious cities.
Author | : Jim Murphy |
Publisher | : Temple University Press |
Total Pages | : 262 |
Release | : 2021-06-18 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1439919240 |
"An alternative, history-focused guidebook to a selection of Philadelphia's heroes and notable places"--
Author | : Les Bowen |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 194 |
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ISBN | : 1610597427 |
Author | : Roger D. Simon |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 144 |
Release | : 2003-01-01 |
Genre | : Philadelphia (Pa.) |
ISBN | : 9781932304282 |
Experience the color, drama, and excitement of Philadelphia as it changes over three hundred years from a colonial port to industrial city and modern metropolis. Such diverse characters as William Penn, Benjamin Franklin, Stephen Girard, John Wanamaker, Rebecca Gratz, Frank Rizzo, and Ed Rendell march across these pages. The struggles of immigrants and African Americans for a place in the city are recounted, along with the occasional spasms of violence and modern efforts at urban renewal.
Author | : Daniel Bowen |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 234 |
Release | : 1839 |
Genre | : Pennsylvania |
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Author | : Gary B. Nash |
Publisher | : University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages | : 395 |
Release | : 2013-08-20 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0812202880 |
With its rich foundation stories, Philadelphia may be the most important city in America's collective memory. By the middle of the eighteenth century William Penn's "greene countrie town" was, after London, the largest city in the British Empire. The two most important documents in the history of the United States, the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, were drafted and signed in Philadelphia. The city served off and on as the official capital of the young country until 1800, and was also the site of the first American university, hospital, medical college, bank, paper mill, zoo, sugar refinery, public school, and government mint. In First City, acclaimed historian Gary B. Nash examines the complex process of memory making in this most historic of American cities. Though history is necessarily written from the evidence we have of the past, as Nash shows, rarely is that evidence preserved without intent, nor is it equally representative. Full of surprising anecdotes, First City reveals how Philadelphians—from members of elite cultural institutions, such as historical societies and museums, to relatively anonymous groups, such as women, racial and religious minorities, and laboring people—have participated in the very partisan activity of transmitting historical memory from one generation to the next.