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Still Philadelphia : a photographic history, 1890-1940 / Fredric M. Miller, Morris J. Vogel, Allen F. Davis.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Miller, Fredric, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Philadelphia (Pa.)--Pictorial works.
- Philadelphia (Pa.).
- Philadelphia (Pa.)--Social life and customs--Pictorial works.
- Manners and customs.
- Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Pictorial works.
- Illustrated works.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xvii, 290 pages) : illustrations
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 1983.
- System Details:
- data file
- Summary:
- This is a book about Philadelphia and about photography, but it is not the usual book about either. On one level, this is the pictorial story of a great industrial metropolis in transition. It is the story of a railroad city, a city of trolleys and subways and horse-drawn vehicles, as it gradually succumbed to the automobile. It is the story of a city filled with neighborhood industry giving way to suburbs, to commuter travel, and to a change in the very nature of work. It is the story of a city spreading out, expanding and doubling in population in fifty years. It is the story of urba.
- Contents:
- Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction; The City of the 1890s; Immigrant Havens; Workshop of the World; The Vision of Reform; A Gallery of Faces; Technologies of Change; The Rise of the Downtown; The New Philadelphia; The City of the 1930s; Sources; Index.
- Notes:
- Print version record.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Miller, Fredric. Still Philadelphia.
- ISBN:
- 9781439907610
- 1439907617
- OCLC:
- 719383022
- Publisher Number:
- 10.2307/j.ctt1bw1jpb
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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