A bunch of old photos

[Phillyxpat]

Great Iconic Philly shot Mr. C - and congratulations on reaching the "2,500" reply mark on this even greater thread.

[CHIOSSO]

Thank you phillyxpat, and thank you for all the great photographs you post.

[ZARK]

From the Temple Digital Diamond site. a ca. 1950 west view towards Broad street, demo work on Vine street for widening and eventual expressway. On the right is Roman Catholic High.Temple University Libraries /Paley Ref lets see if this says up here.

[CHIOSSO]

zark i cant see it , but that could be just me as my pc is a junk pile.

[CHIOSSO]

Casa Ravello Milk Station,701 Catharine St, 1908
Group of adults and children outside Casa Ravello Milk Station building at corner of S 7th and Catharine Streets. Sign on building: "Casa Ravello, Starr Center, Deposito di Latte".

Casa Ravello 1906 Casa Ravello Italian Settlement N.E. Corner 7th and Catharine

View of apartment housing on corner of street with brick road and trolley tracks. On right, two children stand on corner under awning frame. In front of building, a large group of adults and children are gathered. Laundry hanging from several spaces in upper levels of building. A horse drawn carriage in street at curb near telephone pole in front of building.

Now a parking lot, a model tenement called Casa Ravello once was located at this site. Founded in 1902, Casa Ravello offered reasonably priced housing, penny lunches, pure milk, and educational programming to the Italian community. It was a branch of the Starr Centre Association headquartered at 7th and Lombard streets. The Starr Centre was established in 1897 as a consortium of community service and philanthropic programs serving the health and welfare of the city's poor

The Social Organization of Immigration: The Italians in Philadelphia - Richard N. Juliani - Google Books

[CHIOSSO]

Front of a 3-story brick rowhouse with windows missing panes. House next door has windows in tact.

[Swinefeld]

Wow. I can't believe how run down this block was in 1942.

Front of a 3-story brick rowhouse with windows missing panes. House next door has windows in tact.

[CHIOSSO]

Founded in 1805 by Southwark resident James Ronaldson, the Southwark Soup Society was the first soup kitchen in Philadelphia. This building dates from the late 19th century. Ronaldson, a Scotsman who settled in Philadelphia in 1794, aimed to alleviate the most basic affliction of the overcrowded immigrant district — hunger. From January through March, the Southwark Soup Society aided "the deserving poor" of Southwark: primarily the European immigrants who made their way to Hancock Street shortly after arriving in America at the Washington Avenue docks, but also the native-born working poor of the neighborhood. Each winter the Southwark Soup Society distributed thousands of gallons of soup and hundreds of loaves of bread. The Society served its last soup in 1949, when it merged with the United Benevolent Association. Today the building is a restored private residence.




833 S Hancock St 12/19/1957

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[Colin P. Varga]

Front of a 3-story brick rowhouse with windows missing panes. House next door has windows in tact.

Wow. I can't believe how run down this block was in 1942.

It might not be that run down. The first bldg. on the right had a fire, you can see the smoke traces above one of the windows. The other bldg. is only missing two windows. Maybe they were going to be replaced later that day. The car there looks late model for 1942. We don't really know the story just from this photo.

[CHIOSSO]

about a year before

[CHIOSSO]

Reproduced from AMERICAN JEWS ANNUAL, 1890-91.

[CHIOSSO]

THE Frederick Douglass Memorial Hospital, first of its kind established in Pennsylvania,
fighting an uphill battle from its humble start, has an enviable record of service to its credit.
Founded in 1895 by Dr. N. F.Mossell, in a modest three-story building, located at 1512 Lombard Street,

1530-34 Lombard Street,Date circa 1940
Nurses from the Frederick Douglass Memorial Hospital and Training School

Nurses stand in front of the Frederick Douglass Memorial Hospital and Training School, 1530-34 Lombard Street, organized in 1895 by Dr. Nathan F. Mossell, the first African American to graduate from the University of Pennsylvania Medical School in 1882.

[jbk]

Front of a 3-story brick rowhouse with windows missing panes. House next door has windows in tact.

Since it's an even numbered house, I assume we're facing the south side of Lombard. So was Lombard an eastbound street in 1942, or was it a two-way street?

[ZARK]

zark i cant see it , but that could be just me as my pc is a junk pile.

Chiosso..It is not you, apparantly Temples Digital diamond went to some kind of changing photo location identifier, so that if you use the location identifier that is on when viewing the photo then paste it on this site, after a while the identifier changes and the photo will not show up. Not sure why they would do this as these are low res photos anyway. That is one of the reasons I always include the url when I post a photo. You can click on the URL and it would be the third photo. then click on the photo.

[Swinefeld]

It turns out that this block really was run down. This photo shows 2524 Lombard as abandoned and it probably proved to be an attractive nuisance to the local kids who started a fire there shortly after the photo was taken. (compare this photo with the 1942 photo)

about a year before

[CHIOSSO]

No Swinefield the photo is further down the street the was 2528 the second was 2524, check out the placement of the telephone pole in reference to the house.

[Colin P. Varga]

This is the 1941 photo.



This it the 1942 photo.

The burned out bldg. in the 41 photo is the bldg. that is only missing the top windows in the 1942 photo. So there was some renovation in a year. We can tell because of the telephone pole and the placement of the doors of the burned out home and the home next to it.

[Swinefeld]

OK, now I see it.

No Swinefield the photo is further down the street the was 2528 the second was 2524, check out the placement of the telephone pole in reference to the house.

[CHIOSSO]

[Colin P. Varga]

Where is this?