A bunch of old illustrations

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Image ID: 834487

Mitchell & Croasdale successors to G. W. Ridgway & Co. dealers in sperm, whale, lard & tanners oil, candles, rice & c.

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9th & Chestnut.

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not my words

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Joseph Pennell and his wife Elizabeth were notorious for hating the modern world - their book Our Philadelphia largely focusses on how the modern world ruined their pure hometown.

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I have that book never put two and two together, thanks.

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Commissioner's Hall, Christian St. east of Tenth St.

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Pictures of American Cities

Poster circulated in Philadelphia in 1839 to discourage the coming of the railroad. It reads in part: "Philadelphians, your RIGHTS are being invaded! regardless of your interests or the LIVES OF YOUR LITTLE ONES. THE CAMDEN AND AMBOY with the assistance of other companies without a Charter, and in VIOLATION OF LAW as decreed by your Courts, are laying a LOCOMOTIVE RAILROAD! RALLY PEOPLE in the Majesty of your Strength and forbid THIS OUTRAGE!"

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That is one fantastic poster - Many thanks for this! " do you consent to be a Suburb of New York " !

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That is one fantastic poster - Many thanks for this! " do you consent to be a Suburb of New York " !

I have seen the term of Philly being described as "the sixth Borough" of New York City over the years especially in NYC real estate ads advertising loft space in "Fishtown". LOL

I have also seen the term used for Miami etc.

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Saint Edward the Confessor Church 8th and York Streets (1906 – 1993). Still standing as the Highway Temple of Deliverance, 2401 N. Eighth Street.


Architect: George Ashdown Audsley who also designed Saint Joan of Arc School in Harrowgate and the Wanamaker Organ.

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Such an awesome building - so sad to see its interior stripped.

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I have not been there. Is it stripped or did it get put behind plaster board. The description in the bio says that it is an almost perfect copy of a St Margaret's Church in Liverpool thirty years prior which I do not know if it is still standing. But the interior was brick if I recall.

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I have not been there. Is it stripped or did it get put behind plaster board. The description in the bio says that it is an almost perfect copy of a St Margaret's Church in Liverpool thirty years prior which I do not know if it is still standing. But the interior was brick if I recall.

The interior is polychromatic brick - zig zags, stripes, all sorts of designs in the multi-colored brick so that remained unless it was painted over which happens often with such design. But the enormous furnishings (altars, shrines) were amazingly elaborate and impressive - the space is literally awesome - and everything was taken out of it when it was sold. A real tragedy.

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