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Philly : the way it was
- Title
- Philly : the way it was / by Oscar Israelowitz.
- Author
- Israelowitz, Oscar.
- Publication
- Brooklyn, NY : Israelowitz Pub., c2012.
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | ISD (Philadelphia) 14-4333 | Schwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121 |
Details
- Description
- 192 p. : chiefly ill.; 22 x 28 cm
- Subject
- Contents
- Early days. Nannies babysitting in Rittenhouse Square ; Victorian women ; Time to wake up ; Taking walk in Fairmount Park ; Love those dresses -- On the waterfront. Clipper ships along the Delaware ; Floating Church of the Redeemer ; Explosion at Kensington shipyard ; Ferry docking at Market Street piers ; U.S.S. Brooklyn ; Visiting day aboard U.S.S New York -- Celebrations. Victory celebration along Broad Street ; Bartholdi's "Liberty" hand and torch ; Preparing for parade ; Crowning Little Miss Philadelphia ; Wedding anniversary dinner ; Glamour and groceries ; Yankee Doddle Dandy ; Celebrating the sesqui-centennial ; Tom Thumb wedding ; Thanksgiving dinner -- Religion. Logan Square ; Reform Congregation Keneseth Israel ; Sol Goodman's bathhouse ; Jewish Hospital ; Women at work in sweatshop ; Kids pose in front of 305 Delancey Street -- Fire departments. Private fire departments ; Columbia Hose Company ; Closing the firehouse -- Water stuff. Road work on Market Street ; Water, water everywhere -- Clean up the city. Clean-up time ; It's the law-don't litter campaign ; Keep Philadelphia clean campaign -- Street scenes. Independence Hall, ca. 1935 ; Navy recruits march in front of City Hall ; Good Gulf NoNox sign ; Reading Railroad Terminal, 1909 ; Upper Darby, 1940s ; Rush hour along Market Street ; Sansom & 16th Streets, 1947 -- Trolleys. Horse-drawn double-decker omnibus, 1870s ; Kissing trolleys, 1942 ; Boarding #18 trolley, ca. 1920 ; Interior of #18 trolley ; Number 65 trolley, 1936 ; All aboard the Overbrook trolley, 1908 ; Busy street scene, 1911 ; Resting trolleys ; Streamlined trolley, 1938 -- Pennsylvania Railroad. Broad Street Station, ca 1920 ; Pennsylvania Railroad trains ready to roll ; Track work in Broad Street Station ; Group portrait in Broad Street Station, 1923 ; Thirtieth Street Station, 1932 -- Industry. Food for steel blast furnaces ; Manufacturing artillery shells during World War II ; Budd Manufacturing Company ; Baldwin Locomotive Works ; Steam locomotive no. 176 -- Building the subway & els. Delaware Avenue elevated under construction ; Last stop on the el ; Subway storage yard ; Building the Frankford Avenue elevated ; Working on the railroad ; Grand opening of the Central Post Office, 1935 -- Entertainment. Forrest Theatre ; Going to the movies -- Unique trucks. Guarding mail trucks ; Breyers Ice Cream trucks ; Free Library of Philadelphia truck, 1925 -- Architectural gems. Strawbridge & Clothier ; Busy scene along Market Street, 1932 ; An old fashioned sale at Strawbridge & Clothier, 1935 ; Hats, hats, hats ; Widener Mansion ; Divine Hotel Lorraine ; Guaranteed Trust and Safe Deposit Company ; Thaddeus Stevens School of Observation and Practice ; E.C. Eisenbrey's Famous Shirts ; Evan's Drug Store ; Hotel Lafayette ; Gimbel Brothers Department Store ; Gimbel Brothers delivery truck ; Bingham Hotel ; The Bellevue-Stratford Hotel ; Menu from the Bellevue-Stratford Hotel, 1908 ; Abram B. Kirschbaum & Company ; Mansions of Philadelphia ; Marks Dry Goods ; John Wanamaker Department Store ; Meet you at the eagle ; Concert at John Wanamaker's.
- Call Number
- ISD (Philadelphia) 14-4333
- ISBN
- 9781878741936
- 1878741934
- OCLC
- 772465417
- Author
- Israelowitz, Oscar.
- Title
- Philly : the way it was / by Oscar Israelowitz.
- Imprint
- Brooklyn, NY : Israelowitz Pub., c2012.
- Research Call Number
- ISD (Philadelphia) 14-4333