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ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA The Free Society of Traders, a joint-stock company founded by a small group of English Quakers in 1681, was organized with the intention of directing and dominating the economic life of colonial Pennsylvania. But, from the beginning, controversy about the Society’s existence revealed fundamental political divisions within William Penn ’s ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA Philadelphia Story (The) The Philadelphia Story (1939) is a comedy of manners presented as a three-act play set in the late 1930s in a magnificent mansion in Philadelphia’s western Main Line suburbs, a location of wealth and exclusivity. Written by Philip Barry (1896-1949), a prolific dramatic and comic playwright, ThePhiladelphia Story
ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA Library Company of Philadelphia. Robert Bogle, born a slave in 1774, became a successful cook after obtaining his freedom. Bogle provided food for various events such as weddings, meetings, and funerals, effectively inventing the modern concept of catering. Through his successful catering business, Bogle became a fixture in high societyand
ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA By Jack McCarthy. Although Philadelphia was a national trendsetter in rock and roll in the late 1950s and early 1960s, it lost its preeminence in the mid-1960s as tastes changed and the music moved in new directions. While a new home-grown style of African American soul music emerged in the late 1960s and early 1970s that once again put ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA By Fallon Samuels Aidoo. The Red Arrow Lines of the Philadelphia Suburban Transportation Company (1936-70) became a national model and local brand of marketable mass transit in the 1950s, when few private companies still built, managed, owned, and operated suburban public transportation services, let alone profited from them. ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA Tomato Pie. Tomato pie is a pizza-like dish made of a thick focaccia-like bread based on Sicilian sfincione palermitano, topped with tomato gravy and a dusting of cheese. It can be served hot or, more commonly, cooled to room temperature. It was brought to Philadelphia in the early twentieth century by Italian immigrants andpopularized by
ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA Wikimedia Commons. In 1865 Jay Cooke built the fifty-two-room Ogontz Mansion, which in 1883 became the Ogontz School of Young Ladies and eventually was demolished in the twentieth century. Several of Montgomery County’s surviving estates were designed by the noted architect Horace Trumbauer (1868-1938). William Welsh Harrison(1850-1927
ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GREATER PHILADELPHIACONTENTSTHEMESTIMELINEBLOGSOURCESNEWS The Encyclopedia of Greater Philadelphia is a civic project to increase understanding of one of America’s greatest cities. Produced by the Mid-Atlantic Regional Center for the Humanities (MARCH) at Rutgers-Camden, the Encyclopedia as a digital resource and in print volumes will offer the most comprehensive, authoritative reference source ever created for the Philadelphia region. ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA Glenwood Cemetery (Ridge Avenue and Twenty-Seventh Street) began as a burial site in 1850, but became dilapidated after the cemetery closed in 1921. Vandals destroyed gravestones and people left unwanted items throughout the cemetery. Efforts to renovate Glenwood Cemetery began in 1927, when the graves of veterans from the Mexican-American War ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA The crucial decades in the development of street numbers in Philadelphia— the 1780s to 1860s—were years in which urbanization, capitalism, and government power remade American cities. Addresses that became taken for granted were a product of those forces. Andrew Heath is a Lecturer in American History at the University ofSheffield, United
ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA The Free Society of Traders, a joint-stock company founded by a small group of English Quakers in 1681, was organized with the intention of directing and dominating the economic life of colonial Pennsylvania. But, from the beginning, controversy about the Society’s existence revealed fundamental political divisions within William Penn ’s ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA Philadelphia Story (The) The Philadelphia Story (1939) is a comedy of manners presented as a three-act play set in the late 1930s in a magnificent mansion in Philadelphia’s western Main Line suburbs, a location of wealth and exclusivity. Written by Philip Barry (1896-1949), a prolific dramatic and comic playwright, ThePhiladelphia Story
ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA Library Company of Philadelphia. Robert Bogle, born a slave in 1774, became a successful cook after obtaining his freedom. Bogle provided food for various events such as weddings, meetings, and funerals, effectively inventing the modern concept of catering. Through his successful catering business, Bogle became a fixture in high societyand
ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA By Jack McCarthy. Although Philadelphia was a national trendsetter in rock and roll in the late 1950s and early 1960s, it lost its preeminence in the mid-1960s as tastes changed and the music moved in new directions. While a new home-grown style of African American soul music emerged in the late 1960s and early 1970s that once again put ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA By Fallon Samuels Aidoo. The Red Arrow Lines of the Philadelphia Suburban Transportation Company (1936-70) became a national model and local brand of marketable mass transit in the 1950s, when few private companies still built, managed, owned, and operated suburban public transportation services, let alone profited from them. ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA Tomato Pie. Tomato pie is a pizza-like dish made of a thick focaccia-like bread based on Sicilian sfincione palermitano, topped with tomato gravy and a dusting of cheese. It can be served hot or, more commonly, cooled to room temperature. It was brought to Philadelphia in the early twentieth century by Italian immigrants andpopularized by
ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA Wikimedia Commons. In 1865 Jay Cooke built the fifty-two-room Ogontz Mansion, which in 1883 became the Ogontz School of Young Ladies and eventually was demolished in the twentieth century. Several of Montgomery County’s surviving estates were designed by the noted architect Horace Trumbauer (1868-1938). William Welsh Harrison(1850-1927
ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA In 1715, John Moore (1658-1732), Collector of the Port of Philadelphia, made the first known reference to Freemasonry in America when he noted in his diary that he had “spent a few evenings of Masonic festivities with my Masonic Brethren.”. A reference to “several Lodges of Freemasons” in Pennsylvania appeared fifteenyears later in The
ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA Conk, Margo. “Industrial Philadelphia,” review of Philadelphia: Work, Space, Family, and Group Experience in the Nineteenth Century, Essays Toward an Interdisciplinary History of the City, ed. by Theodore Hershberg, Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, July 1, 1982 (vol. 106, no. 3): 423-31.. Hershberg, Theodore. “The Philadelphia Social History Project: A Methodological ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA Popular histories of Pennsylvania’s Scots Irish associate them mostly with the expansion of the colonial frontier, where, as prototypical American backwoodsmen, they built log cabins, farmed and traded, wove flax into linen, distilled whiskey, and fought Native Americans.Because of their participation in the notorious Paxton Boys’ “massacre” of the Christianized Conestoga Indians at ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA The Philadelphia College of Pharmacy, founded in 1821 and shown here in a 1922 drawing, was the nation’s first pharmacy school. Many leading pharmaceutical executives in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries graduated from PCP, later renamed the University of theSciences. (
ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA The name “department store” first appeared in the mid-1880s. New technologies, especially mass transportation, made department stores possible as trolleys, elevated rail lines, and later subways brought massive numbers of shoppers to “downtowns” – also a new word. Also important were elevators, fast newspaper presses, andimprovements
ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA By Fallon Samuels Aidoo. The Red Arrow Lines of the Philadelphia Suburban Transportation Company (1936-70) became a national model and local brand of marketable mass transit in the 1950s, when few private companies still built, managed, owned, and operated suburban public transportation services, let alone profited from them. ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA Specifically, Wood was investigated for the untimely death of inmate Mathias Maccumsey, who was placed in an iron gag, pictured here, as punishment for talking. Maccumsey’s hands were bound behind his back and shackled, as the gag was forcibly placed over his tongue while the iron bar was attached by chains to the shackles on his wrists. ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA Wikimedia Commons. In 1865 Jay Cooke built the fifty-two-room Ogontz Mansion, which in 1883 became the Ogontz School of Young Ladies and eventually was demolished in the twentieth century. Several of Montgomery County’s surviving estates were designed by the noted architect Horace Trumbauer (1868-1938). William Welsh Harrison(1850-1927
ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA One of the most successful local baking firms was the Freihofer Baking Company, established by brothers Charles (1860–1942) and William (1858–1932) Freihofer in Camden, New Jersey, in 1893. The company moved to Philadelphia several years later and in 1900 merged into the larger Freihofer Vienna Baking Company. ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA Saint Mary’s Hospital. The Third Order of the Sisters of St. Francis began caring for the sick and impoverished citizens of Philadelphia in the mid-nineteenth century. In December 1860, the sisters established their first hospital, St. Mary’s, in the Fishtown neighborhood. ( Historical Society of ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GREATER PHILADELPHIACONTENTSTHEMESTIMELINEBLOGSOURCESNEWS The Encyclopedia of Greater Philadelphia is a civic project to increase understanding of one of America’s greatest cities. Produced by the Mid-Atlantic Regional Center for the Humanities (MARCH) at Rutgers-Camden, the Encyclopedia as a digital resource and in print volumes will offer the most comprehensive, authoritative reference source ever created for the Philadelphia region. ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA By the late twentieth century, group homes and foster care largely replaced orphanages as the primary means of caring for such children. St. Joseph’s Orphan Asylum, originally at Seventh and Spruce Streets in Philadelphia, was established in 1797 after a yellow fever epidemic swept the city in 1793. The institution operated until 1984. ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA The name “department store” first appeared in the mid-1880s. New technologies, especially mass transportation, made department stores possible as trolleys, elevated rail lines, and later subways brought massive numbers of shoppers to “downtowns” – also a new word. Also important were elevators, fast newspaper presses, andimprovements
ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA By Jack McCarthy. Although Philadelphia was a national trendsetter in rock and roll in the late 1950s and early 1960s, it lost its preeminence in the mid-1960s as tastes changed and the music moved in new directions. While a new home-grown style of African American soul music emerged in the late 1960s and early 1970s that once again put ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA Library Company of Philadelphia. Robert Bogle, born a slave in 1774, became a successful cook after obtaining his freedom. Bogle provided food for various events such as weddings, meetings, and funerals, effectively inventing the modern concept of catering. Through his successful catering business, Bogle became a fixture in high societyand
ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA Philadelphia was one of several key cities where, in the 1950s and early 1960s, singers created the small-group vocal harmony style of rhythm and blues known as doo wop. Doo wop was an urban style, sung on city street corners and in school hallways. Its name, derived from a type of sound singers made in their vocalizations, has been disparaged ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA Francis Daniel Pastorius. Library of Congress. One of the largest First Purchasers was the Frankfort Land Company, which bought 15,000 acres. The Frankfort Land Company was a conglomeration of German Mennonites and Quakers whose intent was to form a settlement inAmerica.
ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA St. Leo’s Church (now Our Lady of Consolidation Church) was established as an English language Catholic Church in the largely German-speaking Tacony neighborhood. The convent, shown here, was constructed in 1885, the same year construction began on the church. Posted by Lucy Davis on March 10, 2017 at 12:56 pm. Bookmark thepermalink.
CITY OF BROTHERLY LOVE Philadelphia (Film) As a form of cinematic activism, Philadelphia (1993) attempted to reform the public understanding of AIDS in a time when ignorance and fear of the disease fueled prejudice and hate. The film is not merely set in the city of its title, but in a large part, the people of Philadelphia performed it. ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GREATER PHILADELPHIACONTENTSTHEMESTIMELINEBLOGSOURCESNEWS The Encyclopedia of Greater Philadelphia is a civic project to increase understanding of one of America’s greatest cities. Produced by the Mid-Atlantic Regional Center for the Humanities (MARCH) at Rutgers-Camden, the Encyclopedia as a digital resource and in print volumes will offer the most comprehensive, authoritative reference source ever created for the Philadelphia region. ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA By the late twentieth century, group homes and foster care largely replaced orphanages as the primary means of caring for such children. St. Joseph’s Orphan Asylum, originally at Seventh and Spruce Streets in Philadelphia, was established in 1797 after a yellow fever epidemic swept the city in 1793. The institution operated until 1984. ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA The name “department store” first appeared in the mid-1880s. New technologies, especially mass transportation, made department stores possible as trolleys, elevated rail lines, and later subways brought massive numbers of shoppers to “downtowns” – also a new word. Also important were elevators, fast newspaper presses, andimprovements
ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA By Jack McCarthy. Although Philadelphia was a national trendsetter in rock and roll in the late 1950s and early 1960s, it lost its preeminence in the mid-1960s as tastes changed and the music moved in new directions. While a new home-grown style of African American soul music emerged in the late 1960s and early 1970s that once again put ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA Library Company of Philadelphia. Robert Bogle, born a slave in 1774, became a successful cook after obtaining his freedom. Bogle provided food for various events such as weddings, meetings, and funerals, effectively inventing the modern concept of catering. Through his successful catering business, Bogle became a fixture in high societyand
ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA Philadelphia was one of several key cities where, in the 1950s and early 1960s, singers created the small-group vocal harmony style of rhythm and blues known as doo wop. Doo wop was an urban style, sung on city street corners and in school hallways. Its name, derived from a type of sound singers made in their vocalizations, has been disparaged ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA Francis Daniel Pastorius. Library of Congress. One of the largest First Purchasers was the Frankfort Land Company, which bought 15,000 acres. The Frankfort Land Company was a conglomeration of German Mennonites and Quakers whose intent was to form a settlement inAmerica.
ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA St. Leo’s Church (now Our Lady of Consolidation Church) was established as an English language Catholic Church in the largely German-speaking Tacony neighborhood. The convent, shown here, was constructed in 1885, the same year construction began on the church. Posted by Lucy Davis on March 10, 2017 at 12:56 pm. Bookmark thepermalink.
CITY OF BROTHERLY LOVE Philadelphia (Film) As a form of cinematic activism, Philadelphia (1993) attempted to reform the public understanding of AIDS in a time when ignorance and fear of the disease fueled prejudice and hate. The film is not merely set in the city of its title, but in a large part, the people of Philadelphia performed it. ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA In 1715, John Moore (1658-1732), Collector of the Port of Philadelphia, made the first known reference to Freemasonry in America when he noted in his diary that he had “spent a few evenings of Masonic festivities with my Masonic Brethren.”. A reference to “several Lodges of Freemasons” in Pennsylvania appeared fifteenyears later in The
ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA The earliest known signed and dated example of Philadelphia furniture is an escritoire or desk-and-bookcase dated 1707 and stamped by Edward Evans (1679-1754). Raised on a farm along the east bank of the Delaware River in West New Jersey, Evans completed his apprenticeshipin 1704.
ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA The earliest Philadelphia row houses reflected the building traditions of English settlers who, because of the devastating fire of 1666, embraced the fire-resistant, Georgian construction that was efficient in the city’s narrow lots. The first recorded group of row houseswas Budd’s Row, a
ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA The crucial decades in the development of street numbers in Philadelphia— the 1780s to 1860s—were years in which urbanization, capitalism, and government power remade American cities. Addresses that became taken for granted were a product of those forces. Andrew Heath is a Lecturer in American History at the University ofSheffield, United
ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA Multi-Ethnic Neighborhoods. The population of Philadelphia, which had been around 100,000 in 1815, grew to 400,000 in 1850 and, following the consolidation of the city and county in 1854, to 565,000 in 1860. The great influx of immigrants in the period 1847-54 contributed largely to that growth. ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA One of the first of these was the Free African Society, founded in 1787 by leading black citizens of Philadelphia including pastors Richard Allen (1760-1831) and Absalom Jones (1746-1818). This religious mutual aid society was a means of organizing the efforts of black Philadelphians to promote education, and generally to provideaid to those
ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA One of the most successful local baking firms was the Freihofer Baking Company, established by brothers Charles (1860–1942) and William (1858–1932) Freihofer in Camden, New Jersey, in 1893. The company moved to Philadelphia several years later and in 1900 merged into the larger Freihofer Vienna Baking Company. ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA The Free Society of Traders, a joint-stock company founded by a small group of English Quakers in 1681, was organized with the intention of directing and dominating the economic life of colonial Pennsylvania. But, from the beginning, controversy about the Society’s existence revealed fundamental political divisions within William Penn ’s ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA By Fallon Samuels Aidoo. The Red Arrow Lines of the Philadelphia Suburban Transportation Company (1936-70) became a national model and local brand of marketable mass transit in the 1950s, when few private companies still built, managed, owned, and operated suburban public transportation services, let alone profited from them. CITY OF BROTHERLY LOVE Thanks to its founder’s impetus, and to the furthering energy of citizens from Benjamin Franklin to Richard Allen, from Lucretia Mott to John Wanamaker, from Richardson Dilworth to Mary Scullion, Philadelphia has remained one of America’s most inventive laboratories for exploring the civic potential of brotherly love andsisterly affection.
ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GREATER PHILADELPHIACONTENTSTHEMESTIMELINEBLOGSOURCESNEWS The Encyclopedia of Greater Philadelphia is a civic project to increase understanding of one of America’s greatest cities. Produced by the Mid-Atlantic Regional Center for the Humanities (MARCH) at Rutgers-Camden, the Encyclopedia as a digital resource and in print volumes will offer the most comprehensive, authoritative reference source ever created for the Philadelphia region. ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA By the late twentieth century, group homes and foster care largely replaced orphanages as the primary means of caring for such children. St. Joseph’s Orphan Asylum, originally at Seventh and Spruce Streets in Philadelphia, was established in 1797 after a yellow fever epidemic swept the city in 1793. The institution operated until 1984. ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA Library Company of Philadelphia. Robert Bogle, born a slave in 1774, became a successful cook after obtaining his freedom. Bogle provided food for various events such as weddings, meetings, and funerals, effectively inventing the modern concept of catering. Through his successful catering business, Bogle became a fixture in high societyand
ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA By Jack McCarthy. Although Philadelphia was a national trendsetter in rock and roll in the late 1950s and early 1960s, it lost its preeminence in the mid-1960s as tastes changed and the music moved in new directions. While a new home-grown style of African American soul music emerged in the late 1960s and early 1970s that once again put ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA The name “department store” first appeared in the mid-1880s. New technologies, especially mass transportation, made department stores possible as trolleys, elevated rail lines, and later subways brought massive numbers of shoppers to “downtowns” – also a new word. Also important were elevators, fast newspaper presses, andimprovements
ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA Philadelphia was one of several key cities where, in the 1950s and early 1960s, singers created the small-group vocal harmony style of rhythm and blues known as doo wop. Doo wop was an urban style, sung on city street corners and in school hallways. Its name, derived from a type of sound singers made in their vocalizations, has been disparaged ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA Francis Daniel Pastorius. Library of Congress. One of the largest First Purchasers was the Frankfort Land Company, which bought 15,000 acres. The Frankfort Land Company was a conglomeration of German Mennonites and Quakers whose intent was to form a settlement inAmerica.
ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA The achievements of the “Red Rose Girls” went far beyond the realm of art and far beyond the confines of the Philadelphia region. As pioneers of expanded options for women in the early twentieth century, they exerted a wide influence on American art and society. Mark W. Sullivan earned a Ph.D. in the History of Art at Bryn Mawr College. CITY OF BROTHERLY LOVE Philadelphia (Film) As a form of cinematic activism, Philadelphia (1993) attempted to reform the public understanding of AIDS in a time when ignorance and fear of the disease fueled prejudice and hate. The film is not merely set in the city of its title, but in a large part, the people of Philadelphia performed it. ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GREATER PHILADELPHIACONTENTSTHEMESTIMELINEBLOGSOURCESNEWS The Encyclopedia of Greater Philadelphia is a civic project to increase understanding of one of America’s greatest cities. Produced by the Mid-Atlantic Regional Center for the Humanities (MARCH) at Rutgers-Camden, the Encyclopedia as a digital resource and in print volumes will offer the most comprehensive, authoritative reference source ever created for the Philadelphia region. ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA By the late twentieth century, group homes and foster care largely replaced orphanages as the primary means of caring for such children. St. Joseph’s Orphan Asylum, originally at Seventh and Spruce Streets in Philadelphia, was established in 1797 after a yellow fever epidemic swept the city in 1793. The institution operated until 1984. ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA Library Company of Philadelphia. Robert Bogle, born a slave in 1774, became a successful cook after obtaining his freedom. Bogle provided food for various events such as weddings, meetings, and funerals, effectively inventing the modern concept of catering. Through his successful catering business, Bogle became a fixture in high societyand
ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA By Jack McCarthy. Although Philadelphia was a national trendsetter in rock and roll in the late 1950s and early 1960s, it lost its preeminence in the mid-1960s as tastes changed and the music moved in new directions. While a new home-grown style of African American soul music emerged in the late 1960s and early 1970s that once again put ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA The name “department store” first appeared in the mid-1880s. New technologies, especially mass transportation, made department stores possible as trolleys, elevated rail lines, and later subways brought massive numbers of shoppers to “downtowns” – also a new word. Also important were elevators, fast newspaper presses, andimprovements
ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA Philadelphia was one of several key cities where, in the 1950s and early 1960s, singers created the small-group vocal harmony style of rhythm and blues known as doo wop. Doo wop was an urban style, sung on city street corners and in school hallways. Its name, derived from a type of sound singers made in their vocalizations, has been disparaged ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA Francis Daniel Pastorius. Library of Congress. One of the largest First Purchasers was the Frankfort Land Company, which bought 15,000 acres. The Frankfort Land Company was a conglomeration of German Mennonites and Quakers whose intent was to form a settlement inAmerica.
ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA The achievements of the “Red Rose Girls” went far beyond the realm of art and far beyond the confines of the Philadelphia region. As pioneers of expanded options for women in the early twentieth century, they exerted a wide influence on American art and society. Mark W. Sullivan earned a Ph.D. in the History of Art at Bryn Mawr College. CITY OF BROTHERLY LOVE Philadelphia (Film) As a form of cinematic activism, Philadelphia (1993) attempted to reform the public understanding of AIDS in a time when ignorance and fear of the disease fueled prejudice and hate. The film is not merely set in the city of its title, but in a large part, the people of Philadelphia performed it. ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA In 1715, John Moore (1658-1732), Collector of the Port of Philadelphia, made the first known reference to Freemasonry in America when he noted in his diary that he had “spent a few evenings of Masonic festivities with my Masonic Brethren.”. A reference to “several Lodges of Freemasons” in Pennsylvania appeared fifteenyears later in The
ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA The crucial decades in the development of street numbers in Philadelphia— the 1780s to 1860s—were years in which urbanization, capitalism, and government power remade American cities. Addresses that became taken for granted were a product of those forces. Andrew Heath is a Lecturer in American History at the University ofSheffield, United
ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA Multi-Ethnic Neighborhoods. The population of Philadelphia, which had been around 100,000 in 1815, grew to 400,000 in 1850 and, following the consolidation of the city and county in 1854, to 565,000 in 1860. The great influx of immigrants in the period 1847-54 contributed largely to that growth. ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA The earliest known signed and dated example of Philadelphia furniture is an escritoire or desk-and-bookcase dated 1707 and stamped by Edward Evans (1679-1754). Raised on a farm along the east bank of the Delaware River in West New Jersey, Evans completed his apprenticeshipin 1704.
ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA One of the first of these was the Free African Society, founded in 1787 by leading black citizens of Philadelphia including pastors Richard Allen (1760-1831) and Absalom Jones (1746-1818). This religious mutual aid society was a means of organizing the efforts of black Philadelphians to promote education, and generally to provideaid to those
ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA The first grocery store chains in Philadelphia, established by several Scots-Irish and British immigrants, emerged in the 1890s. By 1910 they accounted for about 490 stores, including the Acme Tea Company with two hundred stores and Robinson and Crawford, first ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA The Free Society of Traders, a joint-stock company founded by a small group of English Quakers in 1681, was organized with the intention of directing and dominating the economic life of colonial Pennsylvania. But, from the beginning, controversy about the Society’s existence revealed fundamental political divisions within William Penn ’s ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA The “Red Rose Girls”—Jessie Willcox Smith (1863-1935), Elizabeth Shippen Green (1871-1954), and Violet Oakley (1874-1961)—met while students of the famous illustrator Howard Pyle (1853-1911). They caused a stir in that era by promising to not marry and to live together for life as partners in what they called the “COGS family.” “C” stood for Henrietta Cozens (ca. 1862-1940), a ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA By Fallon Samuels Aidoo. The Red Arrow Lines of the Philadelphia Suburban Transportation Company (1936-70) became a national model and local brand of marketable mass transit in the 1950s, when few private companies still built, managed, owned, and operated suburban public transportation services, let alone profited from them. CITY OF BROTHERLY LOVE Thanks to its founder’s impetus, and to the furthering energy of citizens from Benjamin Franklin to Richard Allen, from Lucretia Mott to John Wanamaker, from Richardson Dilworth to Mary Scullion, Philadelphia has remained one of America’s most inventive laboratories for exploring the civic potential of brotherly love andsisterly affection.
ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GREATER PHILADELPHIACONTENTSTHEMESTIMELINEBLOGSOURCESNEWS The Encyclopedia of Greater Philadelphia is a civic project to increase understanding of one of America’s greatest cities. Produced by the Mid-Atlantic Regional Center for the Humanities (MARCH) at Rutgers-Camden, the Encyclopedia as a digital resource and in print volumes will offer the most comprehensive, authoritative reference source ever created for the Philadelphia region. ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA By the late twentieth century, group homes and foster care largely replaced orphanages as the primary means of caring for such children. St. Joseph’s Orphan Asylum, originally at Seventh and Spruce Streets in Philadelphia, was established in 1797 after a yellow fever epidemic swept the city in 1793. The institution operated until 1984. ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA Library Company of Philadelphia. Robert Bogle, born a slave in 1774, became a successful cook after obtaining his freedom. Bogle provided food for various events such as weddings, meetings, and funerals, effectively inventing the modern concept of catering. Through his successful catering business, Bogle became a fixture in high societyand
ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA By Jack McCarthy. Although Philadelphia was a national trendsetter in rock and roll in the late 1950s and early 1960s, it lost its preeminence in the mid-1960s as tastes changed and the music moved in new directions. While a new home-grown style of African American soul music emerged in the late 1960s and early 1970s that once again put ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA The name “department store” first appeared in the mid-1880s. New technologies, especially mass transportation, made department stores possible as trolleys, elevated rail lines, and later subways brought massive numbers of shoppers to “downtowns” – also a new word. Also important were elevators, fast newspaper presses, andimprovements
ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA Philadelphia was one of several key cities where, in the 1950s and early 1960s, singers created the small-group vocal harmony style of rhythm and blues known as doo wop. Doo wop was an urban style, sung on city street corners and in school hallways. Its name, derived from a type of sound singers made in their vocalizations, has been disparaged ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA Francis Daniel Pastorius. Library of Congress. One of the largest First Purchasers was the Frankfort Land Company, which bought 15,000 acres. The Frankfort Land Company was a conglomeration of German Mennonites and Quakers whose intent was to form a settlement inAmerica.
ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA The achievements of the “Red Rose Girls” went far beyond the realm of art and far beyond the confines of the Philadelphia region. As pioneers of expanded options for women in the early twentieth century, they exerted a wide influence on American art and society. Mark W. Sullivan earned a Ph.D. in the History of Art at Bryn Mawr College. CITY OF BROTHERLY LOVE Philadelphia (Film) As a form of cinematic activism, Philadelphia (1993) attempted to reform the public understanding of AIDS in a time when ignorance and fear of the disease fueled prejudice and hate. The film is not merely set in the city of its title, but in a large part, the people of Philadelphia performed it. ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GREATER PHILADELPHIACONTENTSTHEMESTIMELINEBLOGSOURCESNEWS The Encyclopedia of Greater Philadelphia is a civic project to increase understanding of one of America’s greatest cities. Produced by the Mid-Atlantic Regional Center for the Humanities (MARCH) at Rutgers-Camden, the Encyclopedia as a digital resource and in print volumes will offer the most comprehensive, authoritative reference source ever created for the Philadelphia region. ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA By the late twentieth century, group homes and foster care largely replaced orphanages as the primary means of caring for such children. St. Joseph’s Orphan Asylum, originally at Seventh and Spruce Streets in Philadelphia, was established in 1797 after a yellow fever epidemic swept the city in 1793. The institution operated until 1984. ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA Library Company of Philadelphia. Robert Bogle, born a slave in 1774, became a successful cook after obtaining his freedom. Bogle provided food for various events such as weddings, meetings, and funerals, effectively inventing the modern concept of catering. Through his successful catering business, Bogle became a fixture in high societyand
ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA By Jack McCarthy. Although Philadelphia was a national trendsetter in rock and roll in the late 1950s and early 1960s, it lost its preeminence in the mid-1960s as tastes changed and the music moved in new directions. While a new home-grown style of African American soul music emerged in the late 1960s and early 1970s that once again put ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA The name “department store” first appeared in the mid-1880s. New technologies, especially mass transportation, made department stores possible as trolleys, elevated rail lines, and later subways brought massive numbers of shoppers to “downtowns” – also a new word. Also important were elevators, fast newspaper presses, andimprovements
ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA Philadelphia was one of several key cities where, in the 1950s and early 1960s, singers created the small-group vocal harmony style of rhythm and blues known as doo wop. Doo wop was an urban style, sung on city street corners and in school hallways. Its name, derived from a type of sound singers made in their vocalizations, has been disparaged ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA Francis Daniel Pastorius. Library of Congress. One of the largest First Purchasers was the Frankfort Land Company, which bought 15,000 acres. The Frankfort Land Company was a conglomeration of German Mennonites and Quakers whose intent was to form a settlement inAmerica.
ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA The achievements of the “Red Rose Girls” went far beyond the realm of art and far beyond the confines of the Philadelphia region. As pioneers of expanded options for women in the early twentieth century, they exerted a wide influence on American art and society. Mark W. Sullivan earned a Ph.D. in the History of Art at Bryn Mawr College. CITY OF BROTHERLY LOVE Philadelphia (Film) As a form of cinematic activism, Philadelphia (1993) attempted to reform the public understanding of AIDS in a time when ignorance and fear of the disease fueled prejudice and hate. The film is not merely set in the city of its title, but in a large part, the people of Philadelphia performed it. ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA In 1715, John Moore (1658-1732), Collector of the Port of Philadelphia, made the first known reference to Freemasonry in America when he noted in his diary that he had “spent a few evenings of Masonic festivities with my Masonic Brethren.”. A reference to “several Lodges of Freemasons” in Pennsylvania appeared fifteenyears later in The
ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA The crucial decades in the development of street numbers in Philadelphia— the 1780s to 1860s—were years in which urbanization, capitalism, and government power remade American cities. Addresses that became taken for granted were a product of those forces. Andrew Heath is a Lecturer in American History at the University ofSheffield, United
ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA Multi-Ethnic Neighborhoods. The population of Philadelphia, which had been around 100,000 in 1815, grew to 400,000 in 1850 and, following the consolidation of the city and county in 1854, to 565,000 in 1860. The great influx of immigrants in the period 1847-54 contributed largely to that growth. ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA The earliest known signed and dated example of Philadelphia furniture is an escritoire or desk-and-bookcase dated 1707 and stamped by Edward Evans (1679-1754). Raised on a farm along the east bank of the Delaware River in West New Jersey, Evans completed his apprenticeshipin 1704.
ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA One of the first of these was the Free African Society, founded in 1787 by leading black citizens of Philadelphia including pastors Richard Allen (1760-1831) and Absalom Jones (1746-1818). This religious mutual aid society was a means of organizing the efforts of black Philadelphians to promote education, and generally to provideaid to those
ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA The first grocery store chains in Philadelphia, established by several Scots-Irish and British immigrants, emerged in the 1890s. By 1910 they accounted for about 490 stores, including the Acme Tea Company with two hundred stores and Robinson and Crawford, first ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA The Free Society of Traders, a joint-stock company founded by a small group of English Quakers in 1681, was organized with the intention of directing and dominating the economic life of colonial Pennsylvania. But, from the beginning, controversy about the Society’s existence revealed fundamental political divisions within William Penn ’s ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA The “Red Rose Girls”—Jessie Willcox Smith (1863-1935), Elizabeth Shippen Green (1871-1954), and Violet Oakley (1874-1961)—met while students of the famous illustrator Howard Pyle (1853-1911). They caused a stir in that era by promising to not marry and to live together for life as partners in what they called the “COGS family.” “C” stood for Henrietta Cozens (ca. 1862-1940), a ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA By Fallon Samuels Aidoo. The Red Arrow Lines of the Philadelphia Suburban Transportation Company (1936-70) became a national model and local brand of marketable mass transit in the 1950s, when few private companies still built, managed, owned, and operated suburban public transportation services, let alone profited from them. CITY OF BROTHERLY LOVE Thanks to its founder’s impetus, and to the furthering energy of citizens from Benjamin Franklin to Richard Allen, from Lucretia Mott to John Wanamaker, from Richardson Dilworth to Mary Scullion, Philadelphia has remained one of America’s most inventive laboratories for exploring the civic potential of brotherly love andsisterly affection.
ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GREATER PHILADELPHIACONTENTSTHEMESTIMELINEBLOGSOURCESNEWS The Encyclopedia of Greater Philadelphia is a civic project to increase understanding of one of America’s greatest cities. Produced by the Mid-Atlantic Regional Center for the Humanities (MARCH) at Rutgers-Camden, the Encyclopedia as a digital resource and in print volumes will offer the most comprehensive, authoritative reference source ever created for the Philadelphia region. ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA List of Landowners in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Special Collections, Haverford College. Penn’s March 1682 charter for the Free Society of Traders granted the company and its members 20,000 acres of land and the promise of three seats on the Provincial Council in Philadelphia. ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA LuLu Shriners. Special Collections Research Center, Temple University Libraries. Shriners International, originally known as the Ancient Arabic Order of the Nobles ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA Greater Philadelphia’s banking roots go deeper than those of any region in the country. Philadelphia was the home of the first commercial bank (1782), the first national bank (1791), the first savings bank (1816), and the first savings and loan association(1831).
ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA City directories and census-taking provided an impetus to street numbering. The editor of the other 1785 directory numbered houses sequentially on one side of a street then continued the sequence back down it (a “clockwise” method commonly employed in Europe). ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA Library Company of Philadelphia. Robert Bogle, born a slave in 1774, became a successful cook after obtaining his freedom. Bogle provided food for various events such as weddings, meetings, and funerals, effectively inventing the modern concept of catering. ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA Tomato Pie. Tomato pie is a pizza-like dish made of a thick focaccia-like bread based on Sicilian sfincione palermitano, topped with tomato gravy and a dusting of cheese.It can be served hot or, more commonly, cooled to room temperature. ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA The Red Arrow Lines of the Philadelphia Suburban Transportation Company (1936-70) became a national model and local brand of marketable mass transit in the 1950s, when few private companies still built, managed, owned, and operated suburban public transportation services, let alone profited from them. ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA This 1915 aerial view of the Alan Wood Iron and Steel Company along the Schuylkill River shows the factory complex in proximity to the railroad and a bridge over the river, with portions of Conshohocken in the distance.Library Company of Philadelphia ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA Sonny Hopson “The Mighty Burner” aka “Soul Sound Sonny” was popular from 1966-1969 on WHAT radio in Philadelphia. He was placed in afternoon drive by WHAT PD George Wilson, who later became a big name with the Bartell Group. ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GREATER PHILADELPHIACONTENTSTHEMESTIMELINEBLOGSOURCESNEWS The Encyclopedia of Greater Philadelphia is a civic project to increase understanding of one of America’s greatest cities. Produced by the Mid-Atlantic Regional Center for the Humanities (MARCH) at Rutgers-Camden, the Encyclopedia as a digital resource and in print volumes will offer the most comprehensive, authoritative reference source ever created for the Philadelphia region. ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA List of Landowners in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Special Collections, Haverford College. Penn’s March 1682 charter for the Free Society of Traders granted the company and its members 20,000 acres of land and the promise of three seats on the Provincial Council in Philadelphia. ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA LuLu Shriners. Special Collections Research Center, Temple University Libraries. Shriners International, originally known as the Ancient Arabic Order of the Nobles ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA Greater Philadelphia’s banking roots go deeper than those of any region in the country. Philadelphia was the home of the first commercial bank (1782), the first national bank (1791), the first savings bank (1816), and the first savings and loan association(1831).
ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA City directories and census-taking provided an impetus to street numbering. The editor of the other 1785 directory numbered houses sequentially on one side of a street then continued the sequence back down it (a “clockwise” method commonly employed in Europe). ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA Library Company of Philadelphia. Robert Bogle, born a slave in 1774, became a successful cook after obtaining his freedom. Bogle provided food for various events such as weddings, meetings, and funerals, effectively inventing the modern concept of catering. ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA Tomato Pie. Tomato pie is a pizza-like dish made of a thick focaccia-like bread based on Sicilian sfincione palermitano, topped with tomato gravy and a dusting of cheese.It can be served hot or, more commonly, cooled to room temperature. ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA The Red Arrow Lines of the Philadelphia Suburban Transportation Company (1936-70) became a national model and local brand of marketable mass transit in the 1950s, when few private companies still built, managed, owned, and operated suburban public transportation services, let alone profited from them. ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA This 1915 aerial view of the Alan Wood Iron and Steel Company along the Schuylkill River shows the factory complex in proximity to the railroad and a bridge over the river, with portions of Conshohocken in the distance.Library Company of Philadelphia ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA Sonny Hopson “The Mighty Burner” aka “Soul Sound Sonny” was popular from 1966-1969 on WHAT radio in Philadelphia. He was placed in afternoon drive by WHAT PD George Wilson, who later became a big name with the Bartell Group. ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA LuLu Shriners. Special Collections Research Center, Temple University Libraries. Shriners International, originally known as the Ancient Arabic Order of the Nobles ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA City directories and census-taking provided an impetus to street numbering. The editor of the other 1785 directory numbered houses sequentially on one side of a street then continued the sequence back down it (a “clockwise” method commonly employed in Europe). ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA Widows' and Orphans' Asylums. Historical Society of Pennsylvania. The Orphan Society of Philadelphia received a donation of land from Samuel Wetherill, Samuel Richards, Samuel Archer, and Robert Ralston, and by 1818 the new home at Eighteenth and Cherry Streets in Philadelphia housed thirty-six orphans. ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA High Chest and Dressing Table, John Head. Philadelphia Museum of Art. The work of John Head is a rare example of early Philadelphia furniture for which there is clear documentation. ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA The Grand Depot. PhillyHistory.org. John Wanamaker's Grand Depot, shown in this 1900 photograph, was replaced in 1911 by a structure so notable that its dedication was attended by ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA Popular histories of Pennsylvania’s Scots Irish associate them mostly with the expansion of the colonial frontier, where, as prototypical American backwoodsmen, they built log cabins, farmed and traded, wove flax into linen, distilled whiskey, and fought Native Americans.Because of their participation in the notorious Paxton Boys’ “massacre” of the Christianized Conestoga Indians at ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA Root beer, a popular beverage in the United States since the late eighteenth century, began as a medicinal beverage produced at home. In the nineteenth century, carbonated root beer grew in popularity, particularly after Philadelphia pharmacist Charles Elmer Hires (1851-1937) presented his version of root beer at the 1876 CentennialExhibition.
ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA Sha Na Na. Photo by “General Bob” Felderman. While its heyday was over by the early 1960s, doo wop retained a small but devoted fan base and enjoyed several revivals. One was spurred by the 1969 appearance of the group Sha Na Na at Woodstock, where, among other songs, they performed two enduring Philadelphia doo-wop hits, “Get a Job” and“At the Hop.”
ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA Library Company of Philadelphia. This is a photograph of the Blue Anchor Tavern in 1920, Philadelphia’s first tavern, founded in 1681. Located at Front Street and Dock Creek (Dock Street), the tavern stood for more than two centuries and served as a place of hospitality and refreshment for ship captains, tradesmen, and the entrepreneurs of the growing city of Philadelphia. ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA Wikimedia Commons. In 1865 Jay Cooke built the fifty-two-room Ogontz Mansion, which in 1883 became the Ogontz School of Young Ladies andeventually was
ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GREATER PHILADELPHIACONTENTSTHEMESTIMELINEBLOGSOURCESNEWS The Encyclopedia of Greater Philadelphia is a civic project to increase understanding of one of America’s greatest cities. Produced by the Mid-Atlantic Regional Center for the Humanities (MARCH) at Rutgers-Camden, the Encyclopedia as a digital resource and in print volumes will offer the most comprehensive, authoritative reference source ever created for the Philadelphia region. ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA By the late twentieth century, group homes and foster care largely replaced orphanages as the primary means of caring for such children. St. Joseph’s Orphan Asylum, originally at Seventh and Spruce Streets in Philadelphia, was established in 1797 after a yellow fever epidemic swept the city in 1793. The institution operated until 1984. ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA Library Company of Philadelphia. Robert Bogle, born a slave in 1774, became a successful cook after obtaining his freedom. Bogle provided food for various events such as weddings, meetings, and funerals, effectively inventing the modern concept of catering. Through his successful catering business, Bogle became a fixture in high societyand
ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA By Jack McCarthy. Although Philadelphia was a national trendsetter in rock and roll in the late 1950s and early 1960s, it lost its preeminence in the mid-1960s as tastes changed and the music moved in new directions. While a new home-grown style of African American soul music emerged in the late 1960s and early 1970s that once again put ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA The name “department store” first appeared in the mid-1880s. New technologies, especially mass transportation, made department stores possible as trolleys, elevated rail lines, and later subways brought massive numbers of shoppers to “downtowns” – also a new word. Also important were elevators, fast newspaper presses, andimprovements
ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA Philadelphia was one of several key cities where, in the 1950s and early 1960s, singers created the small-group vocal harmony style of rhythm and blues known as doo wop. Doo wop was an urban style, sung on city street corners and in school hallways. Its name, derived from a type of sound singers made in their vocalizations, has been disparaged ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA Francis Daniel Pastorius. Library of Congress. One of the largest First Purchasers was the Frankfort Land Company, which bought 15,000 acres. The Frankfort Land Company was a conglomeration of German Mennonites and Quakers whose intent was to form a settlement inAmerica.
ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA The achievements of the “Red Rose Girls” went far beyond the realm of art and far beyond the confines of the Philadelphia region. As pioneers of expanded options for women in the early twentieth century, they exerted a wide influence on American art and society. Mark W. Sullivan earned a Ph.D. in the History of Art at Bryn Mawr College. CITY OF BROTHERLY LOVE Philadelphia (Film) As a form of cinematic activism, Philadelphia (1993) attempted to reform the public understanding of AIDS in a time when ignorance and fear of the disease fueled prejudice and hate. The film is not merely set in the city of its title, but in a large part, the people of Philadelphia performed it. ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GREATER PHILADELPHIACONTENTSTHEMESTIMELINEBLOGSOURCESNEWS The Encyclopedia of Greater Philadelphia is a civic project to increase understanding of one of America’s greatest cities. Produced by the Mid-Atlantic Regional Center for the Humanities (MARCH) at Rutgers-Camden, the Encyclopedia as a digital resource and in print volumes will offer the most comprehensive, authoritative reference source ever created for the Philadelphia region. ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA By the late twentieth century, group homes and foster care largely replaced orphanages as the primary means of caring for such children. St. Joseph’s Orphan Asylum, originally at Seventh and Spruce Streets in Philadelphia, was established in 1797 after a yellow fever epidemic swept the city in 1793. The institution operated until 1984. ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA Library Company of Philadelphia. Robert Bogle, born a slave in 1774, became a successful cook after obtaining his freedom. Bogle provided food for various events such as weddings, meetings, and funerals, effectively inventing the modern concept of catering. Through his successful catering business, Bogle became a fixture in high societyand
ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA By Jack McCarthy. Although Philadelphia was a national trendsetter in rock and roll in the late 1950s and early 1960s, it lost its preeminence in the mid-1960s as tastes changed and the music moved in new directions. While a new home-grown style of African American soul music emerged in the late 1960s and early 1970s that once again put ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA The name “department store” first appeared in the mid-1880s. New technologies, especially mass transportation, made department stores possible as trolleys, elevated rail lines, and later subways brought massive numbers of shoppers to “downtowns” – also a new word. Also important were elevators, fast newspaper presses, andimprovements
ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA Philadelphia was one of several key cities where, in the 1950s and early 1960s, singers created the small-group vocal harmony style of rhythm and blues known as doo wop. Doo wop was an urban style, sung on city street corners and in school hallways. Its name, derived from a type of sound singers made in their vocalizations, has been disparaged ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA Francis Daniel Pastorius. Library of Congress. One of the largest First Purchasers was the Frankfort Land Company, which bought 15,000 acres. The Frankfort Land Company was a conglomeration of German Mennonites and Quakers whose intent was to form a settlement inAmerica.
ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA The achievements of the “Red Rose Girls” went far beyond the realm of art and far beyond the confines of the Philadelphia region. As pioneers of expanded options for women in the early twentieth century, they exerted a wide influence on American art and society. Mark W. Sullivan earned a Ph.D. in the History of Art at Bryn Mawr College. CITY OF BROTHERLY LOVE Philadelphia (Film) As a form of cinematic activism, Philadelphia (1993) attempted to reform the public understanding of AIDS in a time when ignorance and fear of the disease fueled prejudice and hate. The film is not merely set in the city of its title, but in a large part, the people of Philadelphia performed it. ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA In 1715, John Moore (1658-1732), Collector of the Port of Philadelphia, made the first known reference to Freemasonry in America when he noted in his diary that he had “spent a few evenings of Masonic festivities with my Masonic Brethren.”. A reference to “several Lodges of Freemasons” in Pennsylvania appeared fifteenyears later in The
ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA The crucial decades in the development of street numbers in Philadelphia— the 1780s to 1860s—were years in which urbanization, capitalism, and government power remade American cities. Addresses that became taken for granted were a product of those forces. Andrew Heath is a Lecturer in American History at the University ofSheffield, United
ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA Multi-Ethnic Neighborhoods. The population of Philadelphia, which had been around 100,000 in 1815, grew to 400,000 in 1850 and, following the consolidation of the city and county in 1854, to 565,000 in 1860. The great influx of immigrants in the period 1847-54 contributed largely to that growth. ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA The earliest known signed and dated example of Philadelphia furniture is an escritoire or desk-and-bookcase dated 1707 and stamped by Edward Evans (1679-1754). Raised on a farm along the east bank of the Delaware River in West New Jersey, Evans completed his apprenticeshipin 1704.
ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA One of the first of these was the Free African Society, founded in 1787 by leading black citizens of Philadelphia including pastors Richard Allen (1760-1831) and Absalom Jones (1746-1818). This religious mutual aid society was a means of organizing the efforts of black Philadelphians to promote education, and generally to provideaid to those
ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA The first grocery store chains in Philadelphia, established by several Scots-Irish and British immigrants, emerged in the 1890s. By 1910 they accounted for about 490 stores, including the Acme Tea Company with two hundred stores and Robinson and Crawford, first ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA The Free Society of Traders, a joint-stock company founded by a small group of English Quakers in 1681, was organized with the intention of directing and dominating the economic life of colonial Pennsylvania. But, from the beginning, controversy about the Society’s existence revealed fundamental political divisions within William Penn ’s ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA The “Red Rose Girls”—Jessie Willcox Smith (1863-1935), Elizabeth Shippen Green (1871-1954), and Violet Oakley (1874-1961)—met while students of the famous illustrator Howard Pyle (1853-1911). They caused a stir in that era by promising to not marry and to live together for life as partners in what they called the “COGS family.” “C” stood for Henrietta Cozens (ca. 1862-1940), a ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA By Fallon Samuels Aidoo. The Red Arrow Lines of the Philadelphia Suburban Transportation Company (1936-70) became a national model and local brand of marketable mass transit in the 1950s, when few private companies still built, managed, owned, and operated suburban public transportation services, let alone profited from them. CITY OF BROTHERLY LOVE Thanks to its founder’s impetus, and to the furthering energy of citizens from Benjamin Franklin to Richard Allen, from Lucretia Mott to John Wanamaker, from Richardson Dilworth to Mary Scullion, Philadelphia has remained one of America’s most inventive laboratories for exploring the civic potential of brotherly love andsisterly affection.
ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GREATER PHILADELPHIACONTENTSTHEMESTIMELINEBLOGSOURCESNEWS The Encyclopedia of Greater Philadelphia is a civic project to increase understanding of one of America’s greatest cities. Produced by the Mid-Atlantic Regional Center for the Humanities (MARCH) at Rutgers-Camden, the Encyclopedia as a digital resource and in print volumes will offer the most comprehensive, authoritative reference source ever created for the Philadelphia region. ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA In 1715, John Moore (1658-1732), Collector of the Port of Philadelphia, made the first known reference to Freemasonry in America when he noted in his diary that he had “spent a few evenings of Masonic festivities with my Masonic Brethren.”. A reference to “several Lodges of Freemasons” in Pennsylvania appeared fifteenyears later in The
ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA By the late twentieth century, group homes and foster care largely replaced orphanages as the primary means of caring for such children. St. Joseph’s Orphan Asylum, originally at Seventh and Spruce Streets in Philadelphia, was established in 1797 after a yellow fever epidemic swept the city in 1793. The institution operated until 1984. ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA The Free Society of Traders, a joint-stock company founded by a small group of English Quakers in 1681, was organized with the intention of directing and dominating the economic life of colonial Pennsylvania. But, from the beginning, controversy about the Society’s existence revealed fundamental political divisions within William Penn ’s ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA Library Company of Philadelphia. Robert Bogle, born a slave in 1774, became a successful cook after obtaining his freedom. Bogle provided food for various events such as weddings, meetings, and funerals, effectively inventing the modern concept of catering. Through his successful catering business, Bogle became a fixture in high societyand
ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA The Philadelphia College of Pharmacy, founded in 1821 and shown here in a 1922 drawing, was the nation’s first pharmacy school. Many leading pharmaceutical executives in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries graduated from PCP, later renamed the University of theSciences. (
ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA Philadelphia was one of several key cities where, in the 1950s and early 1960s, singers created the small-group vocal harmony style of rhythm and blues known as doo wop. Doo wop was an urban style, sung on city street corners and in school hallways. Its name, derived from a type of sound singers made in their vocalizations, has been disparaged ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA The Red Arrow Lines of the Philadelphia Suburban Transportation Company (1936-70) became a national model and local brand of marketable mass transit in the 1950s, when few private companies still built, managed, owned, and operated suburban public transportation services, let alone profited from them. ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA Tomato Pie. Tomato pie is a pizza-like dish made of a thick focaccia-like bread based on Sicilian sfincione palermitano, topped with tomato gravy and a dusting of cheese. It can be served hot or, more commonly, cooled to room temperature. It was brought to Philadelphia in the early twentieth century by Italian immigrants andpopularized by
ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA Wikimedia Commons. In 1865 Jay Cooke built the fifty-two-room Ogontz Mansion, which in 1883 became the Ogontz School of Young Ladies and eventually was demolished in the twentieth century. Several of Montgomery County’s surviving estates were designed by the noted architect Horace Trumbauer (1868-1938). William Welsh Harrison(1850-1927
ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GREATER PHILADELPHIACONTENTSTHEMESTIMELINEBLOGSOURCESNEWS The Encyclopedia of Greater Philadelphia is a civic project to increase understanding of one of America’s greatest cities. Produced by the Mid-Atlantic Regional Center for the Humanities (MARCH) at Rutgers-Camden, the Encyclopedia as a digital resource and in print volumes will offer the most comprehensive, authoritative reference source ever created for the Philadelphia region. ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA In 1715, John Moore (1658-1732), Collector of the Port of Philadelphia, made the first known reference to Freemasonry in America when he noted in his diary that he had “spent a few evenings of Masonic festivities with my Masonic Brethren.”. A reference to “several Lodges of Freemasons” in Pennsylvania appeared fifteenyears later in The
ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA By the late twentieth century, group homes and foster care largely replaced orphanages as the primary means of caring for such children. St. Joseph’s Orphan Asylum, originally at Seventh and Spruce Streets in Philadelphia, was established in 1797 after a yellow fever epidemic swept the city in 1793. The institution operated until 1984. ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA The Free Society of Traders, a joint-stock company founded by a small group of English Quakers in 1681, was organized with the intention of directing and dominating the economic life of colonial Pennsylvania. But, from the beginning, controversy about the Society’s existence revealed fundamental political divisions within William Penn ’s ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA Library Company of Philadelphia. Robert Bogle, born a slave in 1774, became a successful cook after obtaining his freedom. Bogle provided food for various events such as weddings, meetings, and funerals, effectively inventing the modern concept of catering. Through his successful catering business, Bogle became a fixture in high societyand
ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA The Philadelphia College of Pharmacy, founded in 1821 and shown here in a 1922 drawing, was the nation’s first pharmacy school. Many leading pharmaceutical executives in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries graduated from PCP, later renamed the University of theSciences. (
ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA Philadelphia was one of several key cities where, in the 1950s and early 1960s, singers created the small-group vocal harmony style of rhythm and blues known as doo wop. Doo wop was an urban style, sung on city street corners and in school hallways. Its name, derived from a type of sound singers made in their vocalizations, has been disparaged ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA The Red Arrow Lines of the Philadelphia Suburban Transportation Company (1936-70) became a national model and local brand of marketable mass transit in the 1950s, when few private companies still built, managed, owned, and operated suburban public transportation services, let alone profited from them. ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA Tomato Pie. Tomato pie is a pizza-like dish made of a thick focaccia-like bread based on Sicilian sfincione palermitano, topped with tomato gravy and a dusting of cheese. It can be served hot or, more commonly, cooled to room temperature. It was brought to Philadelphia in the early twentieth century by Italian immigrants andpopularized by
ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA Wikimedia Commons. In 1865 Jay Cooke built the fifty-two-room Ogontz Mansion, which in 1883 became the Ogontz School of Young Ladies and eventually was demolished in the twentieth century. Several of Montgomery County’s surviving estates were designed by the noted architect Horace Trumbauer (1868-1938). William Welsh Harrison(1850-1927
ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA Scott Paper, founded by brothers Edward Irvin (1846–1931) and Clarence (1848–1912) Scott in Philadelphia in 1879, was among the nation’s largest makers of toilet paper, paper towels, and tissues for much of the twentieth century. From 1971 to the mid-1990s the company headquarters was in Tinicum Township, Delaware County. ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA The crucial decades in the development of street numbers in Philadelphia— the 1780s to 1860s—were years in which urbanization, capitalism, and government power remade American cities. Addresses that became taken for granted were a product of those forces. Andrew Heath is a Lecturer in American History at the University ofSheffield, United
ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA An elaborate thirty-by-fourteen-foot diorama of Philadelphia served as the centerpiece of the Better Philadelphia exhibition. In the years that followed, many of the diorama’s notable features became reality, including removal of the Pennsylvania Railroad’s viaduct, popularly referred to as a “Chinese Wall,” pictured here.PhillyHistory.org ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA Popular histories of Pennsylvania’s Scots Irish associate them mostly with the expansion of the colonial frontier, where, as prototypical American backwoodsmen, they built log cabins, farmed and traded, wove flax into linen, distilled whiskey, and fought Native Americans.Because of their participation in the notorious Paxton Boys’ “massacre” of the Christianized Conestoga Indians at ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA The first grocery store chains in Philadelphia, established by several Scots-Irish and British immigrants, emerged in the 1890s. By 1910 they accounted for about 490 stores, including the Acme Tea Company with two hundred stores and Robinson and Crawford, first ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA Third and Market, c. 1800. Library Company of Pennsylvania. Street vendors figured in the images included in the book Birch's Views, William Russell Birch’s copperplate engravings of Philadelphia as it was in 1800.This view of the southeastern corner of Third and Market hums with the procession of people, animals, and workers among diverse architectural façades. ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA Wikimedia Commons. In 1865 Jay Cooke built the fifty-two-room Ogontz Mansion, which in 1883 became the Ogontz School of Young Ladies and eventually was demolished in the twentieth century. Several of Montgomery County’s surviving estates were designed by the noted architect Horace Trumbauer (1868-1938). William Welsh Harrison(1850-1927
ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA Specifically, Wood was investigated for the untimely death of inmate Mathias Maccumsey, who was placed in an iron gag, pictured here, as punishment for talking. Maccumsey’s hands were bound behind his back and shackled, as the gag was forcibly placed over his tongue while the iron bar was attached by chains to the shackles on his wrists. ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA The 2012 film Silver Linings Playbook, directed by David O. Russell (b. 1958) and based on the novel by Collingswood, New Jersey, native Matthew Quick (b. 1973), experienced overnight success when it premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival and earned the highly sought-after Audience Award.Filmed in and around Philadelphia, the movie showcases the region’s distinct character and ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA Martin and Charles A. Porter (1839-1907) became two of the first men to straddle the worlds of private enterprise and municipal service as true contractor bosses. During the 1880s and 1890s, while Martin served in various state offices and Porter was a state senator, they joined forces with John Mack to form the “Hog Combine,” so called ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GREATER PHILADELPHIACONTENTSTHEMESTIMELINEBLOGSOURCESNEWS The Encyclopedia of Greater Philadelphia is a civic project to increase understanding of one of America’s greatest cities. Produced by the Mid-Atlantic Regional Center for the Humanities (MARCH) at Rutgers-Camden, the Encyclopedia as a digital resource and in print volumes will offer the most comprehensive, authoritative reference source ever created for the Philadelphia region. ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA In 1715, John Moore (1658-1732), Collector of the Port of Philadelphia, made the first known reference to Freemasonry in America when he noted in his diary that he had “spent a few evenings of Masonic festivities with my Masonic Brethren.”. A reference to “several Lodges of Freemasons” in Pennsylvania appeared fifteenyears later in The
ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA By the late twentieth century, group homes and foster care largely replaced orphanages as the primary means of caring for such children. St. Joseph’s Orphan Asylum, originally at Seventh and Spruce Streets in Philadelphia, was established in 1797 after a yellow fever epidemic swept the city in 1793. The institution operated until 1984. ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA The Free Society of Traders, a joint-stock company founded by a small group of English Quakers in 1681, was organized with the intention of directing and dominating the economic life of colonial Pennsylvania. But, from the beginning, controversy about the Society’s existence revealed fundamental political divisions within William Penn ’s ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA Library Company of Philadelphia. Robert Bogle, born a slave in 1774, became a successful cook after obtaining his freedom. Bogle provided food for various events such as weddings, meetings, and funerals, effectively inventing the modern concept of catering. Through his successful catering business, Bogle became a fixture in high societyand
ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA The Philadelphia College of Pharmacy, founded in 1821 and shown here in a 1922 drawing, was the nation’s first pharmacy school. Many leading pharmaceutical executives in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries graduated from PCP, later renamed the University of theSciences. (
ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA Philadelphia was one of several key cities where, in the 1950s and early 1960s, singers created the small-group vocal harmony style of rhythm and blues known as doo wop. Doo wop was an urban style, sung on city street corners and in school hallways. Its name, derived from a type of sound singers made in their vocalizations, has been disparaged ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA The Red Arrow Lines of the Philadelphia Suburban Transportation Company (1936-70) became a national model and local brand of marketable mass transit in the 1950s, when few private companies still built, managed, owned, and operated suburban public transportation services, let alone profited from them. ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA Tomato Pie. Tomato pie is a pizza-like dish made of a thick focaccia-like bread based on Sicilian sfincione palermitano, topped with tomato gravy and a dusting of cheese. It can be served hot or, more commonly, cooled to room temperature. It was brought to Philadelphia in the early twentieth century by Italian immigrants andpopularized by
ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA Wikimedia Commons. In 1865 Jay Cooke built the fifty-two-room Ogontz Mansion, which in 1883 became the Ogontz School of Young Ladies and eventually was demolished in the twentieth century. Several of Montgomery County’s surviving estates were designed by the noted architect Horace Trumbauer (1868-1938). William Welsh Harrison(1850-1927
ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GREATER PHILADELPHIACONTENTSTHEMESTIMELINEBLOGSOURCESNEWS The Encyclopedia of Greater Philadelphia is a civic project to increase understanding of one of America’s greatest cities. Produced by the Mid-Atlantic Regional Center for the Humanities (MARCH) at Rutgers-Camden, the Encyclopedia as a digital resource and in print volumes will offer the most comprehensive, authoritative reference source ever created for the Philadelphia region. ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA In 1715, John Moore (1658-1732), Collector of the Port of Philadelphia, made the first known reference to Freemasonry in America when he noted in his diary that he had “spent a few evenings of Masonic festivities with my Masonic Brethren.”. A reference to “several Lodges of Freemasons” in Pennsylvania appeared fifteenyears later in The
ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA By the late twentieth century, group homes and foster care largely replaced orphanages as the primary means of caring for such children. St. Joseph’s Orphan Asylum, originally at Seventh and Spruce Streets in Philadelphia, was established in 1797 after a yellow fever epidemic swept the city in 1793. The institution operated until 1984. ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA The Free Society of Traders, a joint-stock company founded by a small group of English Quakers in 1681, was organized with the intention of directing and dominating the economic life of colonial Pennsylvania. But, from the beginning, controversy about the Society’s existence revealed fundamental political divisions within William Penn ’s ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA Library Company of Philadelphia. Robert Bogle, born a slave in 1774, became a successful cook after obtaining his freedom. Bogle provided food for various events such as weddings, meetings, and funerals, effectively inventing the modern concept of catering. Through his successful catering business, Bogle became a fixture in high societyand
ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA The Philadelphia College of Pharmacy, founded in 1821 and shown here in a 1922 drawing, was the nation’s first pharmacy school. Many leading pharmaceutical executives in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries graduated from PCP, later renamed the University of theSciences. (
ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA Philadelphia was one of several key cities where, in the 1950s and early 1960s, singers created the small-group vocal harmony style of rhythm and blues known as doo wop. Doo wop was an urban style, sung on city street corners and in school hallways. Its name, derived from a type of sound singers made in their vocalizations, has been disparaged ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA The Red Arrow Lines of the Philadelphia Suburban Transportation Company (1936-70) became a national model and local brand of marketable mass transit in the 1950s, when few private companies still built, managed, owned, and operated suburban public transportation services, let alone profited from them. ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA Tomato Pie. Tomato pie is a pizza-like dish made of a thick focaccia-like bread based on Sicilian sfincione palermitano, topped with tomato gravy and a dusting of cheese. It can be served hot or, more commonly, cooled to room temperature. It was brought to Philadelphia in the early twentieth century by Italian immigrants andpopularized by
ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA Wikimedia Commons. In 1865 Jay Cooke built the fifty-two-room Ogontz Mansion, which in 1883 became the Ogontz School of Young Ladies and eventually was demolished in the twentieth century. Several of Montgomery County’s surviving estates were designed by the noted architect Horace Trumbauer (1868-1938). William Welsh Harrison(1850-1927
ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA Scott Paper, founded by brothers Edward Irvin (1846–1931) and Clarence (1848–1912) Scott in Philadelphia in 1879, was among the nation’s largest makers of toilet paper, paper towels, and tissues for much of the twentieth century. From 1971 to the mid-1990s the company headquarters was in Tinicum Township, Delaware County. ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA The crucial decades in the development of street numbers in Philadelphia— the 1780s to 1860s—were years in which urbanization, capitalism, and government power remade American cities. Addresses that became taken for granted were a product of those forces. Andrew Heath is a Lecturer in American History at the University ofSheffield, United
ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA An elaborate thirty-by-fourteen-foot diorama of Philadelphia served as the centerpiece of the Better Philadelphia exhibition. In the years that followed, many of the diorama’s notable features became reality, including removal of the Pennsylvania Railroad’s viaduct, popularly referred to as a “Chinese Wall,” pictured here.PhillyHistory.org ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA Popular histories of Pennsylvania’s Scots Irish associate them mostly with the expansion of the colonial frontier, where, as prototypical American backwoodsmen, they built log cabins, farmed and traded, wove flax into linen, distilled whiskey, and fought Native Americans.Because of their participation in the notorious Paxton Boys’ “massacre” of the Christianized Conestoga Indians at ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA The first grocery store chains in Philadelphia, established by several Scots-Irish and British immigrants, emerged in the 1890s. By 1910 they accounted for about 490 stores, including the Acme Tea Company with two hundred stores and Robinson and Crawford, first ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA Third and Market, c. 1800. Library Company of Pennsylvania. Street vendors figured in the images included in the book Birch's Views, William Russell Birch’s copperplate engravings of Philadelphia as it was in 1800.This view of the southeastern corner of Third and Market hums with the procession of people, animals, and workers among diverse architectural façades. ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA Wikimedia Commons. In 1865 Jay Cooke built the fifty-two-room Ogontz Mansion, which in 1883 became the Ogontz School of Young Ladies and eventually was demolished in the twentieth century. Several of Montgomery County’s surviving estates were designed by the noted architect Horace Trumbauer (1868-1938). William Welsh Harrison(1850-1927
ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA Specifically, Wood was investigated for the untimely death of inmate Mathias Maccumsey, who was placed in an iron gag, pictured here, as punishment for talking. Maccumsey’s hands were bound behind his back and shackled, as the gag was forcibly placed over his tongue while the iron bar was attached by chains to the shackles on his wrists. ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA The 2012 film Silver Linings Playbook, directed by David O. Russell (b. 1958) and based on the novel by Collingswood, New Jersey, native Matthew Quick (b. 1973), experienced overnight success when it premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival and earned the highly sought-after Audience Award.Filmed in and around Philadelphia, the movie showcases the region’s distinct character and ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA Martin and Charles A. Porter (1839-1907) became two of the first men to straddle the worlds of private enterprise and municipal service as true contractor bosses. During the 1880s and 1890s, while Martin served in various state offices and Porter was a state senator, they joined forces with John Mack to form the “Hog Combine,” so called ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GREATER PHILADELPHIACONTENTSTHEMESTIMELINEBLOGSOURCESNEWS The Encyclopedia of Greater Philadelphia is a civic project to increase understanding of one of America’s greatest cities. Produced by the Mid-Atlantic Regional Center for the Humanities (MARCH) at Rutgers-Camden, the Encyclopedia as a digital resource and in print volumes will offer the most comprehensive, authoritative reference source ever created for the Philadelphia region. ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA In 1715, John Moore (1658-1732), Collector of the Port of Philadelphia, made the first known reference to Freemasonry in America when he noted in his diary that he had “spent a few evenings of Masonic festivities with my Masonic Brethren.”. A reference to “several Lodges of Freemasons” in Pennsylvania appeared fifteenyears later in The
ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA By the late twentieth century, group homes and foster care largely replaced orphanages as the primary means of caring for such children. St. Joseph’s Orphan Asylum, originally at Seventh and Spruce Streets in Philadelphia, was established in 1797 after a yellow fever epidemic swept the city in 1793. The institution operated until 1984. ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA The Free Society of Traders, a joint-stock company founded by a small group of English Quakers in 1681, was organized with the intention of directing and dominating the economic life of colonial Pennsylvania. But, from the beginning, controversy about the Society’s existence revealed fundamental political divisions within William Penn ’s ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA Library Company of Philadelphia. Robert Bogle, born a slave in 1774, became a successful cook after obtaining his freedom. Bogle provided food for various events such as weddings, meetings, and funerals, effectively inventing the modern concept of catering. Through his successful catering business, Bogle became a fixture in high societyand
ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA The Philadelphia College of Pharmacy, founded in 1821 and shown here in a 1922 drawing, was the nation’s first pharmacy school. Many leading pharmaceutical executives in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries graduated from PCP, later renamed the University of theSciences. (
ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA Philadelphia was one of several key cities where, in the 1950s and early 1960s, singers created the small-group vocal harmony style of rhythm and blues known as doo wop. Doo wop was an urban style, sung on city street corners and in school hallways. Its name, derived from a type of sound singers made in their vocalizations, has been disparaged ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA The Red Arrow Lines of the Philadelphia Suburban Transportation Company (1936-70) became a national model and local brand of marketable mass transit in the 1950s, when few private companies still built, managed, owned, and operated suburban public transportation services, let alone profited from them. ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA Tomato Pie. Tomato pie is a pizza-like dish made of a thick focaccia-like bread based on Sicilian sfincione palermitano, topped with tomato gravy and a dusting of cheese. It can be served hot or, more commonly, cooled to room temperature. It was brought to Philadelphia in the early twentieth century by Italian immigrants andpopularized by
ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA Wikimedia Commons. In 1865 Jay Cooke built the fifty-two-room Ogontz Mansion, which in 1883 became the Ogontz School of Young Ladies and eventually was demolished in the twentieth century. Several of Montgomery County’s surviving estates were designed by the noted architect Horace Trumbauer (1868-1938). William Welsh Harrison(1850-1927
ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GREATER PHILADELPHIACONTENTSTHEMESTIMELINEBLOGSOURCESNEWS The Encyclopedia of Greater Philadelphia is a civic project to increase understanding of one of America’s greatest cities. Produced by the Mid-Atlantic Regional Center for the Humanities (MARCH) at Rutgers-Camden, the Encyclopedia as a digital resource and in print volumes will offer the most comprehensive, authoritative reference source ever created for the Philadelphia region. ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA In 1715, John Moore (1658-1732), Collector of the Port of Philadelphia, made the first known reference to Freemasonry in America when he noted in his diary that he had “spent a few evenings of Masonic festivities with my Masonic Brethren.”. A reference to “several Lodges of Freemasons” in Pennsylvania appeared fifteenyears later in The
ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA By the late twentieth century, group homes and foster care largely replaced orphanages as the primary means of caring for such children. St. Joseph’s Orphan Asylum, originally at Seventh and Spruce Streets in Philadelphia, was established in 1797 after a yellow fever epidemic swept the city in 1793. The institution operated until 1984. ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA The Free Society of Traders, a joint-stock company founded by a small group of English Quakers in 1681, was organized with the intention of directing and dominating the economic life of colonial Pennsylvania. But, from the beginning, controversy about the Society’s existence revealed fundamental political divisions within William Penn ’s ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA Library Company of Philadelphia. Robert Bogle, born a slave in 1774, became a successful cook after obtaining his freedom. Bogle provided food for various events such as weddings, meetings, and funerals, effectively inventing the modern concept of catering. Through his successful catering business, Bogle became a fixture in high societyand
ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA The Philadelphia College of Pharmacy, founded in 1821 and shown here in a 1922 drawing, was the nation’s first pharmacy school. Many leading pharmaceutical executives in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries graduated from PCP, later renamed the University of theSciences. (
ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA Philadelphia was one of several key cities where, in the 1950s and early 1960s, singers created the small-group vocal harmony style of rhythm and blues known as doo wop. Doo wop was an urban style, sung on city street corners and in school hallways. Its name, derived from a type of sound singers made in their vocalizations, has been disparaged ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA The Red Arrow Lines of the Philadelphia Suburban Transportation Company (1936-70) became a national model and local brand of marketable mass transit in the 1950s, when few private companies still built, managed, owned, and operated suburban public transportation services, let alone profited from them. ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA Tomato Pie. Tomato pie is a pizza-like dish made of a thick focaccia-like bread based on Sicilian sfincione palermitano, topped with tomato gravy and a dusting of cheese. It can be served hot or, more commonly, cooled to room temperature. It was brought to Philadelphia in the early twentieth century by Italian immigrants andpopularized by
ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA Wikimedia Commons. In 1865 Jay Cooke built the fifty-two-room Ogontz Mansion, which in 1883 became the Ogontz School of Young Ladies and eventually was demolished in the twentieth century. Several of Montgomery County’s surviving estates were designed by the noted architect Horace Trumbauer (1868-1938). William Welsh Harrison(1850-1927
ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA Scott Paper, founded by brothers Edward Irvin (1846–1931) and Clarence (1848–1912) Scott in Philadelphia in 1879, was among the nation’s largest makers of toilet paper, paper towels, and tissues for much of the twentieth century. From 1971 to the mid-1990s the company headquarters was in Tinicum Township, Delaware County. ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA The crucial decades in the development of street numbers in Philadelphia— the 1780s to 1860s—were years in which urbanization, capitalism, and government power remade American cities. Addresses that became taken for granted were a product of those forces. Andrew Heath is a Lecturer in American History at the University ofSheffield, United
ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA An elaborate thirty-by-fourteen-foot diorama of Philadelphia served as the centerpiece of the Better Philadelphia exhibition. In the years that followed, many of the diorama’s notable features became reality, including removal of the Pennsylvania Railroad’s viaduct, popularly referred to as a “Chinese Wall,” pictured here.PhillyHistory.org ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA Popular histories of Pennsylvania’s Scots Irish associate them mostly with the expansion of the colonial frontier, where, as prototypical American backwoodsmen, they built log cabins, farmed and traded, wove flax into linen, distilled whiskey, and fought Native Americans.Because of their participation in the notorious Paxton Boys’ “massacre” of the Christianized Conestoga Indians at ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA The first grocery store chains in Philadelphia, established by several Scots-Irish and British immigrants, emerged in the 1890s. By 1910 they accounted for about 490 stores, including the Acme Tea Company with two hundred stores and Robinson and Crawford, first ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA Third and Market, c. 1800. Library Company of Pennsylvania. Street vendors figured in the images included in the book Birch's Views, William Russell Birch’s copperplate engravings of Philadelphia as it was in 1800.This view of the southeastern corner of Third and Market hums with the procession of people, animals, and workers among diverse architectural façades. ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA Wikimedia Commons. In 1865 Jay Cooke built the fifty-two-room Ogontz Mansion, which in 1883 became the Ogontz School of Young Ladies and eventually was demolished in the twentieth century. Several of Montgomery County’s surviving estates were designed by the noted architect Horace Trumbauer (1868-1938). William Welsh Harrison(1850-1927
ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA Specifically, Wood was investigated for the untimely death of inmate Mathias Maccumsey, who was placed in an iron gag, pictured here, as punishment for talking. Maccumsey’s hands were bound behind his back and shackled, as the gag was forcibly placed over his tongue while the iron bar was attached by chains to the shackles on his wrists. ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA The 2012 film Silver Linings Playbook, directed by David O. Russell (b. 1958) and based on the novel by Collingswood, New Jersey, native Matthew Quick (b. 1973), experienced overnight success when it premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival and earned the highly sought-after Audience Award.Filmed in and around Philadelphia, the movie showcases the region’s distinct character and ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA Martin and Charles A. Porter (1839-1907) became two of the first men to straddle the worlds of private enterprise and municipal service as true contractor bosses. During the 1880s and 1890s, while Martin served in various state offices and Porter was a state senator, they joined forces with John Mack to form the “Hog Combine,” so called ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GREATER PHILADELPHIACONTENTSTHEMESTIMELINEBLOGSOURCESNEWS The Encyclopedia of Greater Philadelphia is a civic project to increase understanding of one of America’s greatest cities. Produced by the Mid-Atlantic Regional Center for the Humanities (MARCH) at Rutgers-Camden, the Encyclopedia as a digital resource and in print volumes will offer the most comprehensive, authoritative reference source ever created for the Philadelphia region. ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA LuLu Shriners. Special Collections Research Center, Temple University Libraries. Shriners International, originally known as the Ancient Arabic Order of the Nobles ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA List of Landowners in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Special Collections, Haverford College. Penn’s March 1682 charter for the Free Society of Traders granted the company and its members 20,000 acres of land and the promise of three seats on the Provincial Council in Philadelphia. ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA Widows' and Orphans' Asylums. Historical Society of Pennsylvania. The Orphan Society of Philadelphia received a donation of land from Samuel Wetherill, Samuel Richards, Samuel Archer, and Robert Ralston, and by 1818 the new home at Eighteenth and Cherry Streets in Philadelphia housed thirty-six orphans. ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA Library Company of Philadelphia. Robert Bogle, born a slave in 1774, became a successful cook after obtaining his freedom. Bogle provided food for various events such as weddings, meetings, and funerals, effectively inventing the modern concept of catering. ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA Philadelphia played a key role in the birth of the American pharmaceutical industry in the early nineteenth century, and the region remained a major pharmaceutical center into the early twenty-first century. ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA The Red Arrow Lines of the Philadelphia Suburban Transportation Company (1936-70) became a national model and local brand of marketable mass transit in the 1950s, when few private companies still built, managed, owned, and operated suburban public transportation services, let alone profited from them. ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA Tomato Pie. Tomato pie is a pizza-like dish made of a thick focaccia-like bread based on Sicilian sfincione palermitano, topped with tomato gravy and a dusting of cheese.It can be served hot or, more commonly, cooled to room temperature. ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA Sha Na Na. Photo by “General Bob” Felderman. While its heyday was over by the early 1960s, doo wop retained a small but devoted fan base and enjoyed several revivals. One was spurred by the 1969 appearance of the group Sha Na Na at Woodstock, where, among other songs, they performed two enduring Philadelphia doo-wop hits, “Get a Job” and“At the Hop.”
ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA Wikimedia Commons. In 1865 Jay Cooke built the fifty-two-room Ogontz Mansion, which in 1883 became the Ogontz School of Young Ladies andeventually was
ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GREATER PHILADELPHIACONTENTSTHEMESTIMELINEBLOGSOURCESNEWS The Encyclopedia of Greater Philadelphia is a civic project to increase understanding of one of America’s greatest cities. Produced by the Mid-Atlantic Regional Center for the Humanities (MARCH) at Rutgers-Camden, the Encyclopedia as a digital resource and in print volumes will offer the most comprehensive, authoritative reference source ever created for the Philadelphia region. ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA LuLu Shriners. Special Collections Research Center, Temple University Libraries. Shriners International, originally known as the Ancient Arabic Order of the Nobles ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA List of Landowners in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Special Collections, Haverford College. Penn’s March 1682 charter for the Free Society of Traders granted the company and its members 20,000 acres of land and the promise of three seats on the Provincial Council in Philadelphia. ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA Widows' and Orphans' Asylums. Historical Society of Pennsylvania. The Orphan Society of Philadelphia received a donation of land from Samuel Wetherill, Samuel Richards, Samuel Archer, and Robert Ralston, and by 1818 the new home at Eighteenth and Cherry Streets in Philadelphia housed thirty-six orphans. ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA Library Company of Philadelphia. Robert Bogle, born a slave in 1774, became a successful cook after obtaining his freedom. Bogle provided food for various events such as weddings, meetings, and funerals, effectively inventing the modern concept of catering. ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA Philadelphia played a key role in the birth of the American pharmaceutical industry in the early nineteenth century, and the region remained a major pharmaceutical center into the early twenty-first century. ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA The Red Arrow Lines of the Philadelphia Suburban Transportation Company (1936-70) became a national model and local brand of marketable mass transit in the 1950s, when few private companies still built, managed, owned, and operated suburban public transportation services, let alone profited from them. ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA Tomato Pie. Tomato pie is a pizza-like dish made of a thick focaccia-like bread based on Sicilian sfincione palermitano, topped with tomato gravy and a dusting of cheese.It can be served hot or, more commonly, cooled to room temperature. ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA Sha Na Na. Photo by “General Bob” Felderman. While its heyday was over by the early 1960s, doo wop retained a small but devoted fan base and enjoyed several revivals. One was spurred by the 1969 appearance of the group Sha Na Na at Woodstock, where, among other songs, they performed two enduring Philadelphia doo-wop hits, “Get a Job” and“At the Hop.”
ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA Wikimedia Commons. In 1865 Jay Cooke built the fifty-two-room Ogontz Mansion, which in 1883 became the Ogontz School of Young Ladies andeventually was
ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA Site of America's First Paper Mill. Library Company of Philadelphia. Constructed in 1690 by William Rittenhouse (1644–1708), the first paper mill in the American colonies stood on this site, not far from the manor house and small outbuilding depicted in this c. 1922 sketch by Frank H. Taylor (1846–1927). ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA An elaborate thirty-by-fourteen-foot diorama of Philadelphia served as the centerpiece of the Better Philadelphia exhibition. In the years that followed, many of the diorama’s notable features became reality, including removal of the Pennsylvania Railroad’s viaduct, popularly referred to as a “Chinese Wall,” pictured here.PhillyHistory.org ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA City directories and census-taking provided an impetus to street numbering. The editor of the other 1785 directory numbered houses sequentially on one side of a street then continued the sequence back down it (a “clockwise” method commonly employed in Europe). ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA Third and Market, c. 1800. Library Company of Pennsylvania. Street vendors figured in the images included in the book Birch's Views, William Russell Birch’s copperplate engravings of Philadelphia as it was in 1800.This view of the southeastern corner of Third and Market hums with the procession of people, animals, and workers among diverse architectural façades. ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA Popular histories of Pennsylvania’s Scots Irish associate them mostly with the expansion of the colonial frontier, where, as prototypical American backwoodsmen, they built log cabins, farmed and traded, wove flax into linen, distilled whiskey, and fought Native Americans.Because of their participation in the notorious Paxton Boys’ “massacre” of the Christianized Conestoga Indians at ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA Library Company of Philadelphia. Though Eastern State was founded upon progressive ideals, including humane treatment of prisoners, the penitentiary was not always above reproach and was investigated for corrupt behavior as early as 1834, just five years after opening itsdoors.
ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA Local grocery stores, along with churches, elementary schools, and often saloons, have defined and anchored urban and suburban neighborhoods. General grocery stores first appeared in Philadelphia and the surrounding area in the early nineteenth century and increased in number after the Civil War as populations exploded in industrial cities like Camden and Philadelphia and their adjacent suburbs. ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA Boies Penrose, 1911. Library of Congress. Boies Penrose represented Pennsylvania in the U.S. Senate for over a quarter of a century. During his tenure, he was caught up in the battle between the two big contractor bosses of the city, state Senator James P. McNichol and brothers Edwin and William Vare. ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA The 2012 film Silver Linings Playbook, directed by David O. Russell (b. 1958) and based on the novel by Collingswood, New Jersey, native Matthew Quick (b. 1973), experienced overnight success when it premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival and earned the highly sought-after Audience Award.Filmed in and around Philadelphia, the movie showcases the region’s distinct character and ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA Wikimedia Commons. In 1865 Jay Cooke built the fifty-two-room Ogontz Mansion, which in 1883 became the Ogontz School of Young Ladies andeventually was
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BASEBALL (PROFESSIONAL) In 1865, the Athletics faced the Boston Atlantics in Philadelphia. (Library of Congress )By Ed Moorhouse
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