Oakhall - Wanamaker and Brown - SE Sixth and Market Streets - 1869

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Philadelphia Scenes - 1890

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Handling and Sale of Food in Philadelphia - 1916

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Source: Twelfth Report: Storage, Handling and Sale of Food in Philadelphia, Henry Phipps Institute, 1916 (copyright expired)

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John Wanamaker Store Philadelphia and J.W.C.I.- 1918

Source: The Store Army – Twelve Thousand Workers – Their Growth Recreation Self-Development and Patriotic Service – 1918 (copyright expired)

J.W.C.I. – John Wanamaker Commercial Institute – among the 12,000 regular employees of JW Philadelphia and New York Stores – was a mandatory enrollment in classes for all employed boys and girls ages 16-18. Extension education classes were conducted to add to youth’s previous grammar school levels of education along with courses in physical training, military drill, hygiene, first aid, public speaking etc. to train and standardize the employee presented to the customer in the store and its services. 

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John Wanamaker Store - Philadelphia - 1911

Philadelphia National League Baseball Park (left "Baker Bowl") - Broad Street below Lehigh Avenue - 1913

Cooper Battalion Hall - 23rd and Christian Streets - 1918

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Church of the Advent – York Avenue near Buttonwood - Philadelphia - 1890

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Broad Street Station Philadelphia - scenes - 1894 -1940

1940 - Library of Congress

1894 - Library of Congress

Pediment - Allegorical Terra Cotta Sculpture by Karl Bitter – “Elements of Fire and Water Tamed and Harnessed in Service to Man (Railroads)”

Lithograph by Joseph Pennell - 1914

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Philadelphia 1914 - Lithographs by Joseph Pennell

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N. B. Springer’s Reading Terminal Market Restaurant – 12th and Filbert - 1918

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General John Fulton Reynolds Statue – City Hall - 1884

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Unveiling of McKinley Memorial - Philadelphia City Hall - 1908

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Dr. James Rush Mansion, southside Chestnut above 19th Street, Site of Aldine Hotel - 1850

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St. Timothy’s Workingmen’s Club And Institute - Ridge and Vassar - 1878

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Music Fund Hall - 808 Locust Street - 1856 - 1976

George A. Eisenman, HABS photographer April, 1976 – (Public Domain) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:HABS_Musical_Fund_Hall.jpg

Site of First Republican Convention June 1856



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