Sessions Clock Co, Conn., Mid-century modern (1950s) - Yellow Tea Kettle Kitchen Clock - Harrowgate

 

Home kitchen clock in two kitchens of memory in Harrowgate Philly, that never stopped running for over twenty years pictured above.

Disston - Largest Saw - Inquirer 9 Feb 1924

 

Steeplejack "Whitey" Brown Paints Flagpole at Independence Square - 4 July 1925 Inquirer

 

Sign Of The Times - Depression - Selling Apples - Fifteenth and Chestnut Sts. - Inquirer 27 Nov 1930

 

 

Charity in Kensington - Thankgiving - Inquirer 27 Nov 1930

 

Santas at the Major Philly Department Stores - Inquirer 15 December 1931

WHAT HAPPENS WHEN SANTA CLAUS APPEARS IN THE TOY DEPARTMENTS

Jolly Old St. Nicholas, who seems to have the power to be in many different places at one time, is always sure to have an army of admiring boys and girls about him at each one of his reservations in Philadelphia department stores.

 (1) Santa Claus, with Galen Dickman on his lap, is seen shaking hands with Jeanne Symes at Wanamaker's. 

(2) A visit to Strawbridge & Clothier finds Santa in away. He is seen showing a toy racer to Gus Harff, Peggy Sand and Robert Sand. 

(3) At Gimbels Santa Claus is right on hand to show the wonders of his toyland to all the juvenile Christmas tourists. 

(4) Santa is also enthroned at Sears, Roebuck & Company. You see him, with his favorite jester by his side, as he hears Christmas requests from some of his little followers. 

(5) Santa Claus is seen at Snellenburg's getting acquainted with an eager line-up of youngsters. 

(6) At Lit Brothers we see "Toby," one of Santa's clowns, demonstrating a stuffed doggie for John Deghetto.

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Toy Store - NE 12th and Spruce Sts., Late Nineteenth Century, Sarah Duncan - Public Ledger 7 Jan 1922

 

Inquirer 14 Nov 1885 

31 Jan 1922 Public Ledger - Ferry Hotel - Delaware and South Streets - 1885

 

N Spencer Thomas Store / Telegraph - 1886 - Vicinity Delaware Ave and Race

  

11 Aug 1922 - Public Ledger

From Find A Grave: N. Spencer Thomas 1828-1890 - ..."He was well-known in the city and was respected by all his acquaintances and warmly esteemed by his friends. Mr. Thomas was the proprietor of the Peerless Dye works, on West Second street, which were erected in 1836. He succeeded in building up a large business in the manufacture of patented dyes, and at the time of his death was furnishing employment to a large number of working people.

He was born in Hartsville, Bucks county, PA, in 1828. His parents were Quakers, and he was also a member of the Society of Friends. At an early age he was apprenticed to a chemist of Philadelphia, and after he attained his majority he embarked in business as a wholesale chemist, having graduated some time before at a pharmaceutical college in Philadelphia. Mr. Thomas successfully experimented with the problem of concentrating the extract of hemlock bark for tanning purposes, and desiring to put his discoveries into practical use he removed to Painted Post, NY, and built an extract factory in that village. He continued his researches into the mysteries of chemistry and succeeded in making the extract of hemlock bark for the base of dyes. He built the bark extract works at Trout Run about twenty years ago, and several years ago he removed to Elmira and built an elegant residence on West Clinton Street, which he made his home. ..."

1895 Advertisement

Looking Up North Broad Street 1887 - Public Ledger 28 Jan 1922

 

Public Ledger 9 Dec 1922 - General Hospital Broad and Cherry Sts. - Civil War

 Never knew this was a depot before it was a hospital.

Allibone House. - N.W. Corner 39th & Walnut Street - 1885 - Castner Scrapbook Collection FLP

Allibone House. - N.W. Corner 39th & Walnut Street - 1885 - Castner Scrapbook Collection FLP

Burt House - 12th and Walnut Sts NW - Caster Scrapbook Collection v.40 FLP - circa 1925

 

Water Street Caverns/Caves - Castner Scrapbook Collection FLP - Newspaper Clipping circa 1922

 This series of vaults, uncovered by the razing of buildings on Water st, above Race making way for the Philadelphia anchorage  of the Delaware River Bridge, once were partly under the waters of the Delaware and are believed to have been used by housewives of a hundred years as family laundries. The water's edge then was at Water st. and what is now Delaware av. was part of the river bottom. 

Arthur Murray - 7260 Frankford Ave - Advertisement 1960

 

N 44th and Wallace Streets 1888 - Inquirer 29 Dec 1922

 

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Atomic Bomb Shelter - Advertisement 1960