Philadelphia Made Pasta Sent Abroad - 1904 - NY Tribune 24 Jan 1904

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Sunlight Treatment for Tuberculosis Patients - Philadelphia (General) Hospital - 1904 - NY Tribune 21 Feb 1904

Inquirer 9 Dec 1905


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A. Schoenhut Co - E. Hagert (Adams) and Sepviva Sts. - Toy Manufacturer

Phila. Chamber of Commerce - 1918/1919

NY Tribune 13 Nov 1920

NY Tribune 13 Nov 1920

Minneapolis Journal 25 Nov 1904 

Chicago Sun Tribune 8 Oct 1911

Public Ledger 28 July 1920

Public Ledger 6 Aug 1920

Public Ledger 21 Aug 1920

Inquirer 3 may 1936

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Lummis Peanut Butter - Inquirer 8 June 1956

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City Hall Steeple Jacks - Public Ledger 12 June 1920

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Signs of Prohibition Takes Affect in the City – February 1920

Public Ledger 18 Feb 1920

Public Ledger 25 Feb 1920

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Rumors of a Sugar Delivery - Grocery Store Germantown and Indiana Avenues - Nov 1919

Public Ledger 24 Nov 1919

Continued disruption of consumption patterns of commodities such as sugar following WWI. “Voluntary rationing”, “Meatless Mondays”, “Wheatless Wednesdays”, brain child of Director Herbert Hoover of U.S. Food Administration in efforts to reduce domestic use of food by 15%, commodity controls through June 1919, and then the same agency turned into the American Relief Administration to feed a starving Europe following the war.

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Tasty Baking Girls - 2335 Sedgley Avenue - 1920 "Pageant of Womanhood"

Public Ledger 18  Feb 1920



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Babe Ruth and Wife - Phila. Public Ledger 19 Nov 1919

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Setting Automatic Dials on Keystone Telephones - 1921 - 16th and Summer Streets

Public Ledger 24 Jan 1924

Automatic rotary dials using various exchange prefixes per finger hole via exchanges around the tri-state area was the reason that Keystone Telephone in the Philadelphia area was the preferred business to business telephone over that of the operators at AT&T that connected calls in the early days of the twentieth century and the reason many Philly businesses had two phone companies up until 1945 when AT&T bought out Keystone. 


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House Moving – From 22nd and Hunting Park to Yelland and Schuyler (Present) – Public Ledger 7 Oct 1915

Moved no doubt to make way for Engine 59 Fire / 39th Precinct Police Building 2201 Hunting Park Ave.
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Railroad Dangers Shown By Pictures - Public Ledger 22 Sept 1914

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Liberty Bell Maintenance - Public Ledger 25 June 1920

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Public Ledger Photograph Patrol - Public Ledger 31 Dec 1915

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At the Regent – Emmy Wehlen – in “Sowers and Reapers” – Public Ledger 14 May 1917

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Election Day Results 1916 - Before Radio - Public Ledger Building - (9 Nov 1916)

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Freihofer's Liberty Loaf - 1917 - (Public Ledger 30 Nov 1917)

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Lincoln Market House - Broad Street and Fairmount Avenue - circa 1885

(Public Ledger - 5 Dec 1921)


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Adolph Proskauer 1836-1893 Restaurateur – Belmont Mansion

(Public Ledger 11 Jan 1922)

At a banquet at Belmont Mansion given by the Fairmount Park Commission Lobbying a Congressional Delegation
Promoting a Philadelphia Centennial Exposition in Fairmount Park in 1876
(Inquirer 18 June 1870)

(Inquirer 9 July 1869)

(Inquirer 26 April 1869)

Adolph Proskauer 1836-1893 Restaurateur - not to be confused with a famous "Jewish" Confederate General from Alabama of the same name.



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