Saturday, July 31, 2021

A. O. K. of M. C. - Ancient Order, Knights of the Mystic Chain - Cyclopedia of Fraternities 1907

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  Ancient Order, Knights of the Mystic Chain.  — This secret organization is conspicuous among the hundred-and-one of the last generation by...
Thursday, July 29, 2021

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Running with a lot of loose ends and assumptions. That "Henry Ellis Flower" is the architect "H. E. Flower" ordering a l...
Wednesday, July 28, 2021

When I was a kid, Jersey peaches were the size of baseballs.

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  And picked within hours and sold at roadside stands / truck farms in sight of the orchards along country roads, where we used to car over ...
Sunday, July 18, 2021

A Correction - Pennsylvania School Journal - April 1931

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  A Correction  The name of Mary Catherine Snyder of the faculty of the George L. Horn school, Philadelphia, was erroneously listed among th...

Bible Reading and Flag Waving - 86th Annual Report Philadelphia Board of Education - thru Dec 31, 1907

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Frankford and (Erie) Castor Aves - Philadelphia Real Estate Record and Builders' Guide, v. 22, 1907

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Wednesday, July 14, 2021

P.R.R. Ferry Boat "Arctic' - circa 1890

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  Star Ventilator Catalogue 1891
Sunday, July 11, 2021

Competitive Drawings for a Bank Building in West Philadelphia - bank - 40th ? and Haverford St.

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Competitive Drawings for a Bank Building in West Philadelphia bank Cited Architects, Engineers, and Others - Kennedy, Hays & Kelsey (T S...
Tuesday, June 29, 2021

Chambers Brothers Co. Machinery, - International Bookbinder. v.3 1902.

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Hexamer General Surveys, Volume 7 Chambers Brothers & Co. Machine Works & Foundry Plate 576 1872
Tuesday, June 22, 2021

Joseph Hart - Playmates See Boy Six, 6, Killed on PRR Bridge

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Inquirer 20 Feb 1955 A 6-year-old boy, playing with his dog, was killed by a passenger train on the Pennsylvania Railroad bridge over Frankf...
Monday, June 21, 2021

John and Christian Ziegenthaler - 1911 Buckius St. - Florists / Nursery Men - Frankford Schulverein

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  1910 Bromley Map John Ziegenthaler - Born Germany 1843-1916 Christian Ziegenthaler - Born Germany 1845-1938 Inquirer 10 Nov 1916 T he Amer...
Sunday, June 13, 2021

Max Riebenach Esq., Comptroller of the Pennsylvania Railroad's House - SE 34th St. and Powelton Ave - Scientific American Jan 1891 - Present

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A RESIDENCE ON POWELTON AVENUE, PHILADELPHIA. We present on page 9 plates of a residence, erected for M. Riebenack, Esq., on Powelton Avenue...
Friday, June 4, 2021

Broad and Poplar Streets - 1892 - Public Ledger 13 Dec 1921

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Old Horticulture Hall South Broad Street - pre 1881- Public Ledger17 Dec 1921

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Delaware Ave and Race Street - pre 1890 - Public Ledger 22 Dec 1921

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Broad and Sansom - early 1860s - Public Ledger 8 Apr 1922

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!0th And Girard NW - 1890 - Public Ledger 18 July 1922

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City Hall Tower - 1885 - Public Ledger 5 Jan 1922

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Washington and Delaware Aves - Public Ledger 8 June 1921

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Foot Of York Street - 1892 - Public Ledger 20 Dec 1921

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Wednesday, June 2, 2021

Rev. Norris M. Jones (N. M. Jones) - 1869

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Curious tale of the Rector of St. Bartholomew's P.E.Church at 8th and York Sts., Rev. N. M Jones, sold out from under him at a Sheriff...
Monday, May 31, 2021

Harrowgate - Kensington Combined Veterans Memorial Day Parade - Mid 1960s

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  From home movies - Bernadette Smotrys 
Tuesday, May 25, 2021

Delta Files Works - 3227 Frankford Ave. - 1916--1917

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Sunday, May 23, 2021

Dracula in the Boys' Bedroom Closet - Harrowgate / Aramingo

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Memory is a funny thing. I saw the recent R/E sales photos of the house I grew up in on Jasper Street in Philly and saw the photo of the bac...
Sunday, May 16, 2021

Frank P. Lins, Pharmacist. Fifteenth Street and Columbia (Cecil B. Moore) Avenue - Pennsylvania Historical Review: City of Philadelphia 1886

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  Frank P. Lins, Pharmacist. Fifteenth Street and Columbia Avenue— Among the many pharmacists who have made a decided success in their profe...
Friday, May 14, 2021

Saint Leo's Church, Tacony, Dedicated - Inquirer 6 Oct 1884

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Inquirer 6 October 1884 St. Leo's Laying of the Corner Stone of a New Roman Catholic Church. Archbishop Ryan laid the corner stone of S...
Sunday, May 9, 2021

Happy Mother's Day Mom - Memories Past 1950s - Harrowgate/Aramingo

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  Happy Mother's Day Mom - memories past late 1950s - - This is a realty picture of the recent sale of the row house I lived in as a yo...

Air Mail Philly to NYC Late 1950s - Jasper and Pike Sts.

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Memory from my brother, late fifties - Jasper and Pike St.-- "Remember sitting on front porch (Summer) at jasper and Dad would point o...
Tuesday, April 27, 2021

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

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  Home kitchen clock in two kitchens of memory in Harrowgate Philly, that never stopped running for over twenty years pictured above.
Wednesday, April 21, 2021

Disston - Largest Saw - Inquirer 9 Feb 1924

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

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Monday, April 19, 2021

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

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Charity in Kensington - Thankgiving - Inquirer 27 Nov 1930

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